Flash & VoIP
Until recently, I’ve not been radically interested in VoIP, mainly due to the fact that mobile calls in Finland have become insanely cheap – 0,06 euros / minute to any subscriber – by the stiff competition of virtual operators in recent years.
Last week however I started to take a look at Asterisk, a open source PBX since we’re trying to figure out how we could leverage VoIP in one of our campaigns. And I got insterested – and a lot of it has to do with rumors that Adobe is thinking about adding VoIP support to the Flash Player.
We quickly got Asterisk to work and were able to create a few cool VoIP-based applications – you know, call a certain number, then control the application with your VoIP client by pressing numbers (DTMF). Using Asterisk’s inbuilt text-to-speech functionality you can build quite interesting stuff very quickly. A lot of tele-companies offer VoIP gateways, so we quickly were able to make calls to any mobile network from our Asterisk box (at 0,2 euros / minute to anywhere in the world).
Now imagine what you could do with VoIP support built into Flash Player. Our customers could for example go to our website, click on any of our employees and call them on their mobile directly from the website, using their microphone and speakers. Asterisk would route the VoIP call from Flash to the mobile network and to the employee’s mobile phone. Asterisk could record the whole session and store or send it via email to both parties.
How cool would that be?
And really, building the whole scenario would be just a few hours of work on the Asterisk side…
Now, the only question is, can VoIP support be built using AS3 only, not changing the player at all? We have access to the microphone, it’s audio input and binary streams, so I guess it should be doable (AS3 also should have enough processing power to compress and decompress audio streams). Does anyone know better?
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