TringMe, a startup run by its founder Yusuf Motiwala, provides a unified platform offering that claims to integrate all existing voice and telephony communication devices. Its latest attempt at providing web-enabled voice application is the announcement of the VoicePHP programming language.

According to the TringMe website, VoicePHP is not an extension to PHP -- it is still the same scripting language developers are already familiar with. The only difference is that the inputs and outputs are voice and not text.


In October 2008 the Indian startup had introduced Flash-based support based on the VoiceXML platform. VoiceXML is another standard XML format that allows voice applications to be developed to HTML for visual applications -- in this case for Flash-based applications.


But according to TringMe, VoiceXML "fails to achieve the power of a real programming language like C, PHP..." because of its complexity and limited capabilities. Motiwala has held senior positions in Lucent and Texas Instruments. Incidentally Lucent is part of the VoiceXML Forum that was formed in 1999 -- along with AT&T, IBM, and Motorola. Currently, Ribbit (a company owned by the BT Group) uses the VoiceXML platform that allows users to send calls to phones, mobiles, VoIP, Voice-over-IM, and Web pages.


The TringMe platform APIs enable developers to create voice and telephony applications in Adobe Air, Flash, Flex, AJAX, PHP, HTML, including smartphone platforms like Symbian, Windows Mobile and the iPhone OS. TringMe provides an ecosystem wherein VoIP providers, service providers, enterprises, developers and end-users can interact. It provides a platform for the development applications that integrate voice and telephony "without worrying about the underlying details of call routing and signalling."


To know how the new TringME platform works, visit the VoicePHP web site.

 
Source: enterpriser.in