David Sugar, Bayonne GNU maintainer, writes . . . In finalizing the fourth milestone release for Bayonne (the telephony server of the GNU project), much work has gone into making Bayonne not just more stable and usable as a traditional telephony server, but also in expanding the very definition of computer-driven telephony services and Bayonne's integration with other existing services. This milestone is the starting point of Bayonne's integration with other free software projects and common system services such as HylaFAX and sendmail.

This milestone also standardizes international localization for Bayonne. A new phrasebook ruleset module for French is now available, along with a contributed French voice vocabulary. This enables the use of Bayonne in French speaking countries and paves the way for further language localizations and demonstrates Bayonne's ability to provide multi-lingual telephony applications. We are looking for more volunteers to help with additional languages, voice libraries, and localizations. All interested in contributing should send e-mail to [email protected].

Parallel to and shortly after the introduction of Bayonne milestone 4, a new series of “tgi_xxx” packages will appear, starting with tgi_perl and tgi_guile. The purpose of these packages is to provide integrated interpreters for tgi work that are installable thru DSO's and that offer much the same benefit that “mod_perl” does for apache web servers.

Finally, this milestone introduces the 2.0 release of TGI (“Telephony Gateway Interface”). TGI is Bayonne's solution for bridging traditional scripting tools such as Perl to telephony services. Bayonne is available for immediate download from ftp://www.voxilla.org/pub/bayonne. The website of the Bayonne Telephony Server GNU Project is located here.

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