Jay Phillips: Adhearsion<\/p>\n
Adhearsion is a modern telephony framework leveraging Ruby.<\/p>\n
[http:\/\/adhearsion.com](http:\/\/adhearsion.com)<\/p>\n
You could write code to play back the weather (text-to-speech).
\nOne of his first apps was to write an app that let him call into his XBox
\nMedia Center with a telephone, and press phone keys to move the cursor around on the screen.<\/p>\n
Just recently, Skype allowed Asterik apps to tie into Skype to receive Skype
\nphone calls.<\/p>\n
He showed how to build an app that lets you play a “Simon” memory game to see
\nhow well you can remember sequences of numbers.<\/p>\n
sandbox {
\n play “Hello world”
\n }<\/p>\n
You can use ActiveRecord into your Adhearsion application. So you can extend a
\nrails app with telephony service.<\/p>\n
Q: Can you make outbound calls? Yes<\/p>\n
Q: Can you play pre-recorded voice clips? Yes<\/p>\n
Q: Can you record voice from a phone call, then play it back? Yes<\/p>\n
Q: What’s the support for things besides Asterik? Like Freeswitch. There isn’t any. He started with Freeswitch, then figured out that no one was using Freeswitch, so he switched to Asterik.<\/p>\n
Q: Are there scaleability issues? Asterik is the limiting factor. It can get up to 150 simultaneous calls on a single box. You could have multiple asterik boxes, and one adhearsion server.<\/p>\n
Q: Can Asterik run in the cloud (EC2)? People do it. There are some issues. Conference rooms don’t work so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jay Phillips: Adhearsion Adhearsion is a modern telephony framework leveraging Ruby. [http:\/\/adhearsion.com](http:\/\/adhearsion.com) You could write code to play back the weather (text-to-speech). One of his first apps was to write an app that let him call into his XBox Media Center with a telephone, and press phone keys to move the cursor around on the … <\/p>\n