pamfaxr, Faxing With Your Voice.

Faxing With Your Voice http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Tropo, who brought AGItate, Asterisk Interface Gateway on Tropo has partnered with PamFax to provide faxing capabilities via an API.  Jason Goecke has wrapped the API with a very simple Ruby gem called pamfaxr which is available on GitHub. The Gem could be installed using the command “gem install pamfaxr” from your command line.  Tropo Blog has an article and a video from Chris Matthieu explaining the PamFaxr Ruby gem demonstrating how to send a simple fax as well as how to build a Tropo Voice to Fax transcription application using Tropo Scripting API!
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How To Install And Get The Best Of AGItate.

Installing #AGItate http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
A few days ago, we wrote about AGItate, "AGItate, Asterisk AGI On Tropo" on taking Asterisk to the cloud. Even though it was not very difficult to understand, I wished for more information on AGItate, Tropo, and Asterisk Interface Gateway (AGI) and my wish was answered today. Actually it was answered a few days ago but only now I found it.

Adhearsion team has posted a screencast series on AGItate;

• Howto Install and Use Tropo AGItate
• Asterisk & Tropo and a Single Adhearsion Dialplan

Get your Asterisk server on the cloud!

AGItate, Asterisk AGI On Tropo

#AGItate, Asterisk AGI On #Tropo http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Jason  Goeke infromed us today us about the Tropo AGItate via a Tweet today. I have been reading a bit here and there about it but today it really hit me.
Asterisk AGI, Asterisk Gateway Interface is an interface for adding functionality to Asterisk with many different programming languages. Perl, PHP, C, Pascal, Bourne Shell or what ever you chose.
Tropo make it very simple to VoIP, Messaging or collaboration application using web and communication technologies together with Tropo cloud API with Tropo scripting to take your application to the cloud.
Now that Tropo supports Asterisk AGI, now you can make Asterisk applications that can span the cloud, as far or wide as your heart or the app requires. Just like the cloud PBX, OpenVoice.
From a blog post that Jason made today, key features of AGItate are;

• Tropo can now speak AGI over TCP to any FastAGI server, including Adhearsion, PHPAGI, Asterisk-Java, etc.
• A long list of Asterisk commands are supported, and of course all the Tropo ones.
• While the script is written in Ruby, no Ruby knowledge is necessary to use it. Just point your Tropo application to the Ruby script on Github, upload a configuration file via FTP or WebDAV to your Tropo account, and you are ready.
• Full support of Tropo Speech-Synthesis (TTS) and Speech-Recognition (ASR), but also for Asterisk sound files. Yes, tt-monkeys works!
• Fail over to a SIP URI, in case your FastAGI server does not respond. This could be to another Tropo application, another Asterisk box, or anything that supports SIP.
• You get all of the Tropo channels over AGI, including SMS, Instant Messaging and Twitter, all using the same application.
• Support for custom SIP Headers in and out of Tropo.

Beyond using AGI to write an entire cloud communications application, Jason tells us that we can also seamlessly integrate Tropo services into existing Asterisk systems using the interface you already know, SIP.

If you want to hear a Tropo AGItate ‘hello world’, give it a ring:

• Phone/SMS: (408) 641-4410
• Skype: +990009369991456829
• SIP: sip:9991456829@sip.tropo.com
• Jabber/XMPP: tropo_agitate@tropo.im

Tropo AGI