An overview of the Adhearsion Ruby-based voice development framework.

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2. Why?
Friction
Closed and proprietary
Non-standard standards
Not suited for modern web developers
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3. What is Adhearsion?
Adhearsion is a new way to write
voice-enabled applications. It's not just
an API or library — it's a fully-featured
framework, the first of its kind for
open source, designed for maximal
code reuse and intuitiveness.
Reduce friction
Modern web development
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4. Where does Adhearsion fit?
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5. What are the features provided by Adhearsion?
•Fully open source
•Multimodal voice enabled apps
•Expose and consume web services for mashups
•Intuitive - Domain Specific Language (DSL)
•ORM Support for database driven voice
applications
•Full and natural use of Ruby and Java
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6. How Adhearsion works...
* Bindings for Freeswitch exist now, full support planned for v0.9.0 of Adhearsion
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7. Code
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8. Dialplan.rb - Control your call flow
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9. Events.rb - Manage all telephony events
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10. Components - Extend the framework with reusable plug-ins
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11. Examples
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12. Rapid development of enterprise voice apps...
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13. Wireless & broadcast television mashup...
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14. Enabling AJAX applications with voice...
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