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Community Radio Stations use publicVoiceXML
By Roland Alton-Scheidl
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Open Source partnership models
The PublicVoiceXML 2.0 browser is published open source at SourceForge under the GNU/GPL license without charging any license fee. Any add-on or change by a third party has to be also published open source.
So, how do we make money? Well, we have worked out four models of co-operation:
- Basic support is given by phone and e-mail for an advance payment of EUR 198.- via our web site (http://www.publicVoiceXML.org).
- Professional support is given, where customization or long-term support is required.
- Special licenses are issued, if a customer needs a closed license to integrate the software with their closed license platform.
- The publicVoiceXML consortium consisting of four members is open for extensions with strategic partners. The consortium agreement is available on request.
Future plans
Our project effort is monitored by the European Commission and two independent reviewers. We will be publishing an implementation report to W3C. Based on the test results and customer requests we will be extending the functionality of the publicVoiceXML browser in the one or the other direction. We have already scheduled to embed basic speech recognition and we will be supporting telco grade hardware in the near future. Any strategic voice recognition partner is welcome to join the consortium. We are always looking for contributors to the software and for talented people who want to join our development team.
Credits
Special thanks to the development team at INDE Ltd (Puneet Singhal, Dinesh Sharma, Brijesh Patel, Ankur Tyagi, Amit Ahuja, Sunil Kamboj, Anup Bali), the technical team at PUBLIC VOICE Lab (Mathias Kimpl, Thomas Hassan, Rene Pfeiffer, Ali Uelkue) and the administrative support by Natasa Stajkovic, people at MTA SZTAKI and the W3C office in Budapest (Laszlo Kovacs, Andras Micsik, Andras Deri, Mate Pataki), TEAM TEICHENBERG (Thomas Thurner, Wolfgang Fuchs, Roland Jankowski), Jean-Francois Junger (European Commission DG-INFSO) and all others who supported and motivated us or who have been giving us feedback when testing the software.
About PUBLIC VOICE Lab
PUBLIC VOICE Lab (http://www.pvl.at) is a private research and development company located in Vienna, Austria, providing consulting, services and methodologies for e-Democracy and e-Inclusion since 1994 with an interdisciplinary team of twelve scientists and experts. PUBLIC VOICE Lab is a partner of the "Electronic Democracy European Network" and is marketing the e-Democracy package [forum:digital] and the e-Inclusion package "Senior Online". With excellent management, presentation, development and business skills we control international projects and spin-out results in commercially viable environments. We have recently extended our open source software development activities to the area of streaming media, archiving solutions for radio stations and telephony based applications by implementing a VoiceXML browser compliant to W3C standards, with support of a software development team in India. PUBLIC VOICE Lab is offering its own Linux distribution based on [dyne:bolic] technology, which is very capable for educational and demonstration purposes. We have built organisational networks such as a Community Media Cluster for the Vienna region, we are maintaining close
relationships to several Universities of Applied Sciences and to related research organisations. PUBLIC VOICE Lab is the co-ordinator of the PublicVoiceXML trial project and contact point for support and partnership requests. Contact address: Operngasse 22-24, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, .
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