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Yesterday was a very good day for my small blog. I got quoted in The Industry Standard, VentureBeat, TMCnet and the Voxeo blog with my findings about Hipsip and the free bridge from Skype to phone.
That feels good.
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Do you remember my blog post "A SIP address for Skype? Better the other way around!"? This mission has now been accomplished. As of yesterday you can call me on Skype and I will answer this call on my desk phone or cell phone using SIP VoIP telephony. As I always try to achieve, this is a totally free solution.
I have joined Voxeo’s developer program for their Evolution application, a visual design tool for interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Part of the deal is that you get a strange phone number with a +990 country code. There is no country associated with this code and Skype users can call these numbers for free. My Skype account is now being forwarded over Voxeo to a SIP address from Gizmo Project which I manage on Voxalot to make use of it’s call connection rules and voice mail.
Have a peek on my settings:
A better explanation can be found at the Voxeo support forum. I wonder what VOIPSA’s Dan York would say. In January he started a discussion with his blog post "Skype says "No" to VoIP interoperability - *because customers aren’t asking for it!* - Well, I am!". He is, by the way, working for Voxeo and this partly solution for his problem comes from his own company. So I guess he was always aware of this trick.
I am happy now that people can call me with Skype and I don’t have to keep me computer running or buy a special Skype phone for this purpose. That’s the reason why I nearly never used Skype. I don’t like applications which keep me tied to my computer in order to receive messages or phone calls, like Skype or the MagicJack normally do. Let’s see which other solutions I can develop with Voxeo. Their visual tool makes the design of VoiceXML fairly easy.
Source: voipcentral.org
In a move to break language barrier, Skype has made an arrangement with two leading firms, Language Line Services and Voxeo to provide an interpreter service in more than 150 languages for customers using VoIP service. The interpreter service will make communication more effective by ensuring callers to communicate with one another in any languages of their preference.
The two firms that teamed up with Skype will translate English into more than 150 languages using personal interpreter services. Language Line Services (LLS) interpreter using Voxe’s Prophecy voice platform will translate call-language from Skype. This service is available all the time at a cost of $2.99 a minute.
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