<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Yesterday I announced the release of Adhearsion 1.2.0 during my presentation "State of the Art Telephony with Ruby" at Lone Star Ruby Conference V in Austin, Texas. LSRC has long been a supporter of the Adhearsion and Asterisk projects and I felt it fitting to use the presentation there as the opportunity to make this exciting new release.</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">In case you missed it, an overview of some of the new features was discussed in a previous blog post entitled "<a href="https://mojolingo.com/blog/2011/getting_ready_for_adhearsion_1_2/">Upcoming Features in Adhearsion 1.2</a>" on the Mojo Lingo blog. A quick recap here:</p><ul style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><li>Native support for text-to-speech on both Asterisk and Tropo</li><li>Several useful new methods, including <code>#play_or_speak</code>, <code>#record_to_file</code>, <code>#input!</code>, <code>#interruptible_play!</code>, <code>#speak</code> and more.</li><li>Enhancements to existing methods such as <code>#input</code> and <code>#play</code></li><li>Fixes to the way we load Bundler gems with the <code>ahn</code> executable</li><li>Improvments to the logging system to enable tracing the activities of a specific call through the logs</li></ul><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Also interesting to the Adhearsion community is the greatly improved support for <a href="http://tropo.com/">Tropo</a> via <a href="https://github.com/tropo/tropo-agitate">AGItate</a> and the ability to easily create sophisticated text-to-speech renderings with the new <a href="https://github.com/benlangfeld/ruby_speech">RubySpeech</a> library. These projects were</div><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">As always, the latest and greatest <a href="http://adhearsion.com/">Adhearsion</a> is available through <a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/adhearsion">RubyGems</a> and sources are on <a href="https://github.com/adhearsion/adhearsion">Github</a>.</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Thanks once again to past core contributor <a href="http://twitter.com/benlangfeld">Ben Langfeld</a> and welcome to new contributor <a href="http://twitter/lgleasain">Lance Gleason</a>. Thanks also to <a href="http://ifbyphone.com/">IfByPhone</a> for sponsoring several of the improvements (especially Text-to-Speech).</p><div>/BAK/</div><div>
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