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Date: 2010 Fri Feb 05 18:32:14 CST
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Welcome to our demo Voice System featuring Voicechat

This is Brian Reynolds welcoming you to demo.verbol.com, our open demo site for VoiceChat
bringing voice to the web and making it as ubiquitous as text.  More at Verbol Apps.

Try recording our utterances (audio snippets) in a call to me from
Brian's demo identity folder or call our guest Voicechat extension 4805 at end to leave voice messages which we can access and reply to from today's page of our guest daily journal. 

VoiceChat which enables our voice conversations to be time independent is one of the many features of our Voice System from Family Systems® which is built on open source technology including Asterisk, Jabber and our Verbol Web Server V3, which adds interactive behaviour to this Apache web site.  

We are also working in Google Wave with help from Tim Panton of PhoneFromHere.  Here is a screencast-0 of Tim making a call with our early wave gadget which makes a Skype call and adds links to the gadget to play the utterances spoken during the call.  Here is screencast-1 of an enhanced Wave Gadget which combines the Skype call as seen in Tim's demo with voicechat including a roster and active message log.  Here is screencast-2 which shows the same converstation continuing in voicechat.   

We now have our voicechat gadget for Wave at a pre-preview state and we are seeking feedback in VoiceChat-9 First Public Wave which contains our voicechat-9 gadget.  If you have a Wave Preview account you can access this wave and try out voicechat in a wave.  Please remember everything we say is on an open demo server.  Google has published a blog re the Boston Wave Hackathon and this links to a similar first public wave in the developer sandbox; to access this you will need a Wave Sandbox account.  Here are a couple of independent blog posts VoiceChat turns Google Wave into a smart phonecall and Talk Live In Google Wave With VoiceChat.

We are showing this Voice System at a preview stage and we encourage your feedback; it is open to public access but not yet widely publicised.  If you are familiar with Linux, please go to Voice System to download, install and run your own prototype voice system either on your personal laptop or "in the cloud" and cooperate with us on its continuing improvement. 

We look forward to hearing from you, Brian.

Enter your user name to go to your verbol identity   

    

OR try out our Guest Identity 

If you wish to enroll for your own verbol identity, on our demo system please do so.  This will create a verbol identity folder for you and provide you with the option of spawning its home page from Brian's demo identity folder (to reach this folder through the input box, type br and press enter or click go.) 

Passwords are required to contribute but not to view as this is an open demo site.  To add your personal voice extension, please email your new user name and password to br@verbol.com so we can add the extension for you in our site's Asterisk dial plan and update our ibots to post voice messages to the daily journal pages in your identity folder.

This is an experimental prototype which is evolving and here is our present Voice System Road Map. We welcome open improvements to the features we have originated as well as both open and proprietary extensions to the systems.  We recommend adoption of CC+COOPY which we have used in our existing licenses and we will consider evolving those in the common interests of us all.

If you are able to administer and support open source software, please download and set up your own Voice System; the source codes are attached to that page.  Your voice system can be configured as a personal system for an individual on a Linux or Apple OSX laptop/netbook or as a family system on a Linux or Apple PC or for a company on a Linux server or for the public in a cloud.   All Family Systems source code is open and provided in our downloads.

A Verbol Web Server is a means of accessing, using, sharing and distributing information including voice conversations, and spawning new verbol web servers.   We achieve this by adding Verbol Apps behaviour to an Apache server and adding a menu template to standard web pages.  The menu sends verbol messages to the server in standard http operations  which enable contribution of content in real time using o­nly a standard browser.  Our Voice System incorporates the Verbol Web Server as the repository of links to recordings of our utterances in telephone, VOIP and Voicechat calls and ibots use the same verbol interface to insert them into the web pages. 

Family Systems Ltd has registered verbol and family systems as trademarks.








 

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All content and program code on this site is owned by its copyright holder and licensed by default as CC+COOPY at www.coopy.biz/coopy or other open source licenses where inherited (eg GPL for Asterisk enhancements) and by accessing or downloading we agree to those terms.  (The CC part means free Creative Commons licenses for non-commercial use and COOPY means cooperative licensing for commercial use.)

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(a)   I understand and acknowledge that this license gives me only a right to view or listen to or provide feedback to the content of this verbol web server, and I will not copy or otherwise capture and take away any content except in accordance with the licences referred to above;
(b)   I recognize the cooperative nature of the verbol web server and will undertake to cause no harm to others or to infringe upon their inalienable rights among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and
(c)   I agree that I will not take offense to content contributed by others to this web site, and will endeavour not to give offense in any content I may contribute.

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This verbol web server is at a prototype stage as we have transitioned from a Version 2.0 verbol web server based on Java servlets and applets to a Version 3 verbol web server based completely on Perl and Javascript.  You are therefore able to install verbol behaviour on any Apache website that supports Perl, thereby creating a verbol web server of interest to you.   Our voice system has more prerequisites which are also open source.    

Building our system based on Perl and Javascript allows verbol web servers to be installed in almost any PC or hosting environment including inexpensive shared hosting accounts available from most common providers.   The first open Voice System V3 is now showing on demo.verbol.com and is downloadable from Voice System.  

We encourage you to try out verbol web server by enrolling on this site and thereby creating a verbol identity for yourself.  You can customise your verbol identity folder by using the toolbar which appears at the top of the browser window.   



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Voice System Road Map

modified message template - draft

Call phone extension

PhoneFromHere general ibook page

Voicechat Help