This session will discuss the growing array of tools that enable developers to integrate voice capabilities, such as speech recognition, into .NET applications. Voice technology is complicated enough that even skilled .NET developers benefit from tools that hide the complexity of working with low-level APIs for automated speech technologies and media servers. A growing number of development platforms are offering controls that perform that exact function. They help.NET developers easily add speaker verification, text-to-speech and media server capabilities to their applications without excessive low-level integration work. Attendees will learn how to lower the cost and effort required for .NET developers to create voice solutions, such as interactive voice response (IVR), speech-enabled self-service, contact center, alert and notification applications, as well as unified communication solutions.
Presented by:
Arkady Balter Principal Software Engineer Envox Worldwide
The transmission of video over WiFi has become an actual trend with a huge market potential. It opens up opportunities for mobile operators to introduce innovative value-added services and helps equipment manufacturers to enrich the feature lists of their handsets for positive customer experience.
For a wide user adoption of video over WiFi, a range of technical challenges has to be overcome. The main challenge lies in resource limitations of mobile devices — their current capabilities are often insufficient for video processing.
In this presentation we will address the technical issues of building a complete software solution for voice and video over WiFi transmission, which will enable OEMs to reap advantages like improved performance, reduced time-to-market, ease of deployment, and overall cost-effectiveness.
As video encoding is the most resource consuming element of video over WiFi processing, we will concentrate on encoding optimization and dynamic control and adjustment of video codec’s FPS rate to prevent CPU overload. We’ll also speak about video PLC technologies, handling WiFi specific network impairments, voice-video synchronization and tweaks for multithreading environments.
VoIP technology is now part of a growing segment of communications around the world. To thrive, however, VoIP must at least match or better yet — outperform — the voice quality of traditional telephony. The voice quality solutions incorporated in end-point IP telephony systems must be scrupulously designed and/or chosen as they directly impact the overall sound quality. This presentation will explain the audio challenges such as echo and background noise, revealing the critical nature of high-performance echo cancellation and noise reduction functionalities.
Overall, attendees will gain insight into how to leverage echo cancellation and voice quality enhancements available as software plug-ins to strategically enhance the sound quality delivered by their end-point voice applications, which will enable them to reap advantages like reduced development time, ease of deployment, and overall cost-effectiveness.
Presented by:
Haim Argaman Owner and Senior Consultant Crimsonet Technologies
Peer-to-peer VoIP used to be for hobbyists and the truly tech-savvy. Now it looks to be catching on: Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! all have announced voice capabilities on top of their messaging clients.
Will P2P become a significant force in enterprise voice and, if it does, how will affect network design and security? Key Questions: How are manufacturers of large-scale enterprise voice systems planning to incorporate P2P technology in their products? How does P2P voice traffic affect overall network performance? Can P2P traffic be managed and controlled? Is P2P voice destined to become like IM — a client each user selects for themselves, with no ability on the part of IT to standardize and secure these clients? What are the potential legal and liability issues around user-driven, ad hoc P2P usage? What potential does P2P technology have to affect the basic architecture of enterprise voice systems? Could P2P drive greater control into the endpoints and out of centralized servers?
Presented by:
Gary Hermansen President & Chief Executive Officer Global IP Sound
