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Russell Bryant has posted details of a new mailing list for automated testing of Asterisk and some information on the progress that has been made. There is no way to say how important I think this work is. It really makes a huge difference to Asterisk and the ability to use it in an enterprise environment. Really great work.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta2.

Congratulations to Leslie Conway, vice president of global marketing, who has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN magazine as one of the top Women of the Channel. CRN’s annual list recognizes female executives across vendors’ channel organizations, distributors and solution providers for their accomplishments over the past year and the far-reaching impact they are having [...]

Nir Simionovich has posted details of the beta of the new call analytics service.

Howdy, Digium is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta of Asterisk 1.8. Asterisk 1.8, the next major release of Asterisk, is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and will be fully supported for 4 years, with an additional year of security-only fixes. For more information about support timelines for Asterisk releases, see [...]

The 15 Commandments of IVR Commandment #4: Always Give Callers An “Opt-In” We’ve built a solid foundation of the first three Commandments of IVR so far: we’ve promised to *Never* Overestimate Your Listener’s Attention Span (which, we’ve established, is considerably shorter than you might think…); we’ve vowed to not create fake mailboxes to make our companies sound [...]

Russell Bryant has posted details of some changes to the way developers need to commit code to Asterisk because of the newly released 1.8 branch.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta1. This release marks the beginning of the testing process for the eventual release of Asterisk 1.8.0.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.6.2.10.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.4.34.

Olle has posted a note about his awesome AppleRaisin branch which provides the ability to store AstDB in realtime. This would make for a much simpler failover and clustering situation.

Lenz has posted a note to inform us that QueueMetrics version 1.6.1 has been released. This release offers a large number of bug fixes, misc improvements and new developements including hotdesking.

Russell Bryant has posted a note to inform us of the creation of the 1.8 branch of Asterisk.

Like a few of these news stories that I will be posting over the next couple of days this is a little old - hope it is not something you have already seen. This one is for a new version of the app_swift text-to-speech module for Asterisk 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6.

Hey all - I am back online after some pretty big projects which have taken all my time. Will be updating the Asterisk news over the next few days.

Thanks to the Old Spice guy Isaiah Mustafa, Asterisk fans are now chopping up a video and piecing together new outgoing messages for their personal voicemail. If you still chuckle any time you hear a deep voice say, “I’m on a horse,” then you’ll probably enjoy his resonant recitation of useful words for voicemail recordings. Now [...]

The 15 Commandments of IVR Commandment #3: Keep Things Simple So far in this Blog Series, we’ve covered the first two “commandments” of writing clean, easy-to-use IVR systems: Commandment #1: Don’t Overestimate Your Listener’s Attention Span Commandment #2: Thou Shalt Not Create Fake Mailboxes. Both really key points: many writers of IVR systems feel like they have their callers “captive”, [...]

Guest Blogger - Tim Kruse is the VP of Sales and Business Development for Incendonet, a Digium software partner.  He has been involved with speech recognition and advanced communication solutions for more than 15 years and will be presenting during an upcoming webinar on July 13th at 12PM CST.  Register Now I have been working with [...]

It is with a mixture of pride and sorrow that I share the news that long-time Digium employee and Asterisk community member Jared Smith is leaving Digium to become the Fedora Project Leader, employed by Red Hat. Jared has contributed to the Asterisk community for the better part of a decade, and has worked tirelessly [...]