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
Allison is not exclusively working for asterisk, she also does other recordings. Zao Steve Totaro wrote:> 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 > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd dean@cognation.net +1-212-203-4357 Ph +1-917-207-3420 Mb +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 3:07 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Ebay Unwired Buyer, Using Asterisk? 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 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Jan 2007, at 21:07, Steve Totaro wrote:> 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. jens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFsSoDRAx5nvEhZLIRAojzAJwKfbZGsuFQO45ds0+ZY0jh4wYhawCfT5q1 MT40p83x78dm0CIxQGpNh8c=4aFS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>They do. The ExternalIVR application was developed in cooperation withthem. 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.
Steve Totaro wrote:> 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, > SteveSteve, 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. -- Wayne Walker Operations Manager UnWired Buyer, Inc. http://www.unwiredbuyer.com Note: My opinions are not necessarily the opinions of my employer.