I6NET's VXI* VoiceXML Browser for Cloud Telephony Unveiled

I6NET, a pan European company offering interactive voice & video response technologies, reportedly announced the next VXI* releases for Asterisk PBX (News - Alert), which will help in realizing advanced Cloud Telephony.

In general, Cloud Telephony is an on-demand voice service that is offered by a hosted, often virtualized, deployment of voice infrastructure that can manipulate inbound and outbound calls through a simple programmable interface.  Generally, Cloud Telephony features hosted IVR, voice broadcast, VoiceXML (News - Alert), voice API services and more.

Nowadays, Hosted Telephony or Phone 2.0 API services do not offer a full access to their own IVR platforms management and engines control in the Cloud.

I6NET’s VXI* for Cloud, the latest VXI* release for Asterisk (News - Alert) PBX, will run any standard VoiceXML 2.0+ application for inbound / outbound telephony services automatically in a virtual OS (operating system) server environment.

According to I6NET, this approach of I6NET will free carriers and enterprises to get their own Virtual IVR services that can be powered by VoiceXML / SIP, the open standard speech XML language and VoIP protocol.

I6NET’s VXI* is a software-based voice and video VoiceXML browser that runs on Asterisk PBX platform. By adding VXI* to any Asterisk server, a user can have access to VoiceXML applications. This will expose PBX to the new evolution of Interactive Voice & Video Response or IVVR and Web enabled applications.

Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and a tool kit especially for telephony applications. It is a comprehensive call-processing server in itself. It can be either used as a standalone system or as an adjunct to a previously existing PBX or VoIP implementation. 

VoiceXML is a mark-up language. Similar to HTML, VoiceXML enables users to develop Web-based applications using their voice. It utilizes speech recognition and touchtone for input, and pre-recorded audio and text-to-speech synthesis for output. Any telephone can access VoiceXML applications via a VoiceXML browser, which is running on a telephony server, such as VXI*. 

I6NET officials say that the company’s VoiceXML browser and applications technology enables the creation of interactive voice and video IP/3G services to access multi-lingual and dynamic contents.