Phono - JQuery plugin to create a phone in your browser • Hacker News Board

Post by akalsey » Wed, Oct 27, 2010, 2:09 PM UTC

rdzah wrote: post #27

akalsey wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Javascript can't capture the user's microphone directly. So Phono uses a tiny Flash or Java widget to do that part. The rest is all JS. We're heading an HTML 5 working group on voice in the browser, and once HTML5 has mic support, Phono will use it.

Any guess as to when the element (or api - Berjon vs Hixie?) will be adopted by a shipping browser so we can have this all-js microphone (and camera) access without a flash shim? My bet is Android webkit first (ericcson closed source webkit proof of concept already exists); a timeline would be nice though.

Any implementation right now would be pretty early. The live media capture parts of HTML5 aren't fully-speced out yet.

http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/

With any luck, some browsers will form a defacto standard that solves the outstanding questions long before the HTML5 group finishes.

Post by akalsey » Wed, Oct 27, 2010, 2:13 PM UTC

jasonkester wrote: post #25

I don't see any pricing info. Are you re-selling Voxeo's services or do I pay them directly? They don't seem to want to give out pricing either. How about a ballpark estimate of what it might cost to actually use this in production?

For now, Phono works with a Voxeo backend (either the enterprise stuff or Tropo, the cloud telephony API). The intent is to allow a developer to create their own backend platform that works with Phono. We'll release the spec for that once the API has settled in and we're sure there's no significant changes needed.

Tropo's pricing is at http://tropo.com/pricing/ and start at 3 cents per minute. Voxeo's other products are based on amount and type of usage and you'd want to contact our sales guys to get a quote. sales@voxeo.com should work for that.

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