Roll Your Own Voice Apps Sean O Sullivan, CTO, Dial2Do

View from the Trenches The Cliffs of API Insanity Ridge of Extraordinarily high Mobile and SMS Prices (Europe) Lake of Cheap Voice Minutes (US, rising) Open Plain of Asterisk Lower slopes of VoiceXML Inhospitable Passes of Speech Recognition Gully of Incompatibilities Cave of Operator Deal-Prevention Unit Hell

Handsfree helps

“ Handsfree Time” 90% of US adults drive Average 87 minutes per day

90% of US adults drive

Average 87 minutes per day

What can we do with this time ? Easy - Phone Calls Hard - Services SMS Email Reminders Diary Information/Content Enterprise Apps Conferencing

Hard - Services

SMS

Email

Reminders

Diary

Information/Content

Enterprise Apps

Conferencing

Email “ Email” “ Dave” “ Hi Dave, err. Just wanted To let you know. You’re fired” Call Dial2Do “ Do What?” “ EmailWho ?” “ Email What ?”

Calendar “ Meeting with Larry on Tuesday at 11am”

twitter “ Twitter” “ In the pub, the singing has started. ” Call Dial2Do “ Do What?” “ Twitter What ?”

Jajah “ Adrienne Wolfe” Call Dial2Do “ Do What?” “ Jajah Who ?” “ OK. Jajah will connecting you to Adrienne Wolfe at 23c per minute. Jajah will call you back.” “ Jajah”

One Number Many Services one number to get things done. Calling Dial2Do Email Reminder Diary SMS

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