TellMe Extensions Is No More
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Robert Stewart of WombatNation Weblog shares with us the latest news from TellMe about it's VoiceXML Extensions:
"Bad news for my free, public SoccerPhone service, which ran as a TellMe Extension. I received the following email from TellMe today: VoiceXML Developer,
Tellme has made many investments in VoiceXML over the past four years. One of these investments was in the Extensions program, with the goal of making VoiceXML a more utilized public standard. Now with VoiceXML well on its way to standardization in the W3C and with hundreds of thousands of VoiceXML applications in production, it is clear that investment has paid off. It is time for us to retire the Extensions program and invest in other areas. As of Wednesday, April 9th we will no longer host Extensions on 1-800-555-TELL or http://studio.tellme.com. Developers can continue to build VoiceXML applications on Tellme Studio.
Thank you for your individual contribution in making VoiceXML the most widely-used and successful voice standard in the world.
The Tellme Development Team
Fortunately, it looks like TellMe will still support developer level access (i.e., you need the admin password) to a VoiceXML application, which should be sufficient for most deployments of PhoneBlogger. I'll now have to look into BeVocal and HeyAnita, although a quick scan of their websites doesn't suggest that they provide a service similar to TellMe Extensions."[WombatNation Weblog]
As much as I am disappointed I think this shift away from free VoiceXML deployment services makes sense. As developers build and design useful apps using TellMe VoiceXML they will now need to put together a business plan or budget to deploy the app. Access to public switch network apps cost money. Especially if they are toll free. H.G.
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