Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk?
Allison is not exclusively working for asterisk, she also does other
recordings.
Zao
Steve Totaro wrote:
Quote:
Just got a call from Ebay's unwired buyer and "The Voice" is Allison
Smith.
Adoption is wide but who is willing to give away their competitive
edge (although ebay doesn't really have any real competition).
Thanks,
Steve
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk?
If you think that constitutes a competitive edge then there isn't much
help. Personally I think it's great that everyone can leverage off a
'shared' resource like Allison.
At least you know it will sound professional and be recorded at a high
standard.
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Just got a call from Ebay's unwired buyer and "The Voice" is Allison
Smith.
Adoption is wide but who is willing to give away their competitive edge
(although ebay doesn't really have any real competition).
Thanks,
Steve
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk?
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On 19 Jan 2007, at 21:07, Steve Totaro wrote:
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Just got a call from Ebay's unwired buyer and "The Voice" is
Allison Smith.
Adoption is wide but who is willing to give away their competitive
edge (although ebay doesn't really have any real competition).
There was a link posted to an interview with Allison a few weeks
back. She mentioned eBay as a customer, and how she used eBay unwired
before and and listened to herself speak. It doesn't mean they use
Asterisk, though.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk?
Dean Collins wrote:
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help. Personally I think it's great that everyone can leverage off a
'shared' resource like Allison.
Now that's a nice wording.
Regards,
Philipp
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk?
Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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There was a link posted to an interview with Allison a few weeks back.
She mentioned eBay as a customer, and how she used eBay unwired before
and and listened to herself speak. It doesn't mean they use Asterisk,
though.
They do. The ExternalIVR application was developed in cooperation with them.
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk?
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They do. The ExternalIVR application was developed in cooperation with
them.
lol so the $2.6b they spent on Skype was well worth it, then. It'd be nice,
though to have an OSS chan_skype.
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk?
I can honestly say Unwired Buyer's competitive advantage is definitely not the fact that they use Asterisk or Allison. Those two things were/are definitely development advantages though.
On 1/22/07, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@digium.com (kpfleming@digium.com)> wrote:
Quote:
Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
Quote:
There was a link posted to an interview with Allison a few weeks back.
She mentioned eBay as a customer, and how she used eBay unwired before
and and listened to herself speak. It doesn't mean they use Asterisk,
though.
They do. The ExternalIVR application was developed in cooperation with them.
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk?
Steve Totaro wrote:
Quote:
Just got a call from Ebay's unwired buyer and "The Voice" is Allison
Smith.
Adoption is wide but who is willing to give away their competitive edge
(although ebay doesn't really have any real competition).
Thanks,
Steve
Steve,
Thanks for trying UnWired Buyer! :)
Yes, we're very happy with Allison's work. I just checked and while I think we used some
of the existing sounds at the start, I believe (and ls -lurt concurs) that we've had
Allison record everything we use now. I recorded most of our original sounds, but, as
many people refer to my voice as "the voice of a songbird.....strangling in hot tar!", it
was decided to contact Allison. As UWB is a real time, auction is almost over tool, we
had her rerecord existing sounds that we needed just a little faster and instead of using
sixty and five, we got her to record sixty-five, etc.
As for asterisk, yes we use it. We designed and funded the ExternalIVR app (so don't
blame Kevin for my ugly protocol design) and worked with Kevin on uncovering some deeper
bugs that our high volume use of asterisk uncovered (long live valgrind). I believe that
Digium talked about us using Asterisk at Astricon 2 years ago, but that could just be a
trick of my fading memory.
Digium and the community:
Thank you for Asterisk!
Also, just to clarify, although we work tightly with eBay, we are a separate entity.
Note: My opinions are not necessarily the opinions of my employer.
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>They do. The ExternalIVR application was developed in cooperation with
them.
lol so the $2.6b they spent on Skype was well worth it, then. It'd be nice,
though to have an OSS chan_skype.
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