Phono - JQuery plugin to create a phone in your browser (opens in new tab)

Sorry xtacy, try again! Finishing samples at 3am the morning of launch is not a good idea ; )

Are you calling a US number? The site says that free calls are only supported to US numbers.

Javascript can't capture the user's microphone directly. So Phono uses a tiny Flash or Java widget to do that part. The rest is all JS.

We're heading an HTML 5 working group on voice in the browser, and once HTML5 has mic support, Phono will use it.

Furthermore, what exactly is the point of making it a jQuery plugin?

"Phono is a simple JQuery plugin and JavaScript SDK [...]"

It's using Flash but it's still a jQuery plugin. Perhaps incomplete but not inaccurate.

We use a tiny Flash movie to capture the microphone, since Javascript can't do that part. We'll be adding an option for a Java applet later, and once HTML5 has microphone support, we'll get that in there, too.

Yes

Nuff said about what? Yes, this has a dependency on Flash (soon to be on Java instead optionally) but so does EVERYTHING that interacts with video or audio devices on the host operating system. This is why Google Talk, Voice in Gmail, etc require the google a/v plugin to be installed, and it's the same reason that this requires Flash.

If you don't like it, go lobby the <device> in HTML5 committee.

Agreed, very slick. The only part that I think is confusing is the inclusion of a 1/4" jack in the logo. I think of guitars and headphones and not telephones when I see that, which moves me further away to the meaning of "phono" that the site needs to convey.

For now, Phono works with a Voxeo backend (either the enterprise stuff or Tropo, the cloud telephony API). The intent is to allow a developer to create their own backend platform that works with Phono. We'll release the spec for that once the API has settled in and we're sure there's no significant changes needed.

Tropo's pricing is at http://tropo.com/pricing/ and start at 3 cents per minute. Voxeo's other products are based on amount and type of usage and you'd want to contact our sales guys to get a quote. sales@voxeo.com should work for that.

We fixed an issue this morning where sometimes the Flash microphone permission window wasn't showing up. Try it again and it should work for you.

Thanks! Let us know if you use Phono for anything. Would love to see what you come up with.