Welcome to our demo Voice System featuring Voicechat

VoiceChat lets you free your mind by speaking thoughts as you have them, share with others who can reply when convenient to them, go back to any part of a conversation at any time and so make voice conversations as ubiquitous as text.

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.

Newsflash, since Google's announcements at I/O, we are experimenting with embedding waves in a web page at Voicechat in public Waves and have updated our First public Voicechat wave to Voicechat 10.4.

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.   

Our VoiceChat gadget incorporates a PhoneFromHere.com softphone which connects to modified Asterisk servers which route calls and record each party's utterances during a call.  Calls can be made to and from the Wave gadget and Skype (using Skype forAsterisk), telephones (via Voicepulse) and SIP extensions, and the utterances of each participant show up in a message log in the gadget.

Each Wave with the VoiceChat gadget has a unique extension so it can also be called at any time from Skype or a regular phone. The utterances from each participant (delimited by silences) are held in a playlist accessible at the extension.  Upon connection to a VoiceChat extension, the utterances are played in the order of the time each recording commenced. Listeners can navigate the playlist and reply by voice at any time and so a useful conversation can build up without the participants having to be online at the same time.

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.

Public Wave Test

test public wave

testing public read only wave

Public Voicechat

Voicechat public waves

Public Voicechat Wave

Second Public Wave

Verbol

Voice System Road Map

modified message template - draft

Call phone extension

PhoneFromHere general phone page

Voicechat Help