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Hi,
 
A number of existing VXML 2.0 platforms including Tellme and Voxeo supports "whole call recording", as an extension to the VoiceXML specification that allows the developer to record the interaction between the caller and the application to a wav file stored in the designated directory. See this link for detail:
 
http://www.vxml.org/frame.jsp?page=voxeo:recordcall.htm.
 
I'd imagine this is a fairly popular and commonly requested feature in the IVR world as it is extremely useful from the perspective of tuning application performance and caller experience.
 
My questions are as follows:
 
1) Is whole call recording supported by the CVP platform (or more specifically, by the Cisco IOS/CVP browser)?
2) If so, please kindly explain how this feature can be enabled (assuming by default it's not enabled), or point me to a doc that has this info.

We are currently running CVP 6.0. Any quick info from your team would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Rachel

For the Cisco IOS VXML browser you can refer to
 
Cisco IOS Tcl IVR and VoiceXML Application Guide
 
http://developer.cisco.com/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=162164&name=DLFE-10901.pdf
 
You also can post your questions in
 
http://developer.cisco.com/web/cvp/forums
 
From Tthere you can get more CVP experts
 
Thanks !
 
 

Thanks for the link, but I did not find any info about "whole call recording" in the application guide. Let me know if i missed it in the doc.
 
Also, I originally raised this question on the CVP forum, but was asked to post it here for more definitive answer (as the feature in question is more directly related to the IOS gateway than CVP).
 
Please let me know if there's a way to enable "whole call recording" with the Cisco VXML browser, and how. 

Thanks,
Rachel

So recording is happening in IOS voice gateway, right ?
 
Can you please help me understand the scenario ? Here is what I understand what you mean whole call recording.
Call coming to GW, triggered VXML API application, play promt saying call will be recorded the VXML application will record the entire conversation ?
Do we pipe the voice string to 3rd party recording device ? what interface is for recrding ? codec ?
 
Thanks,
 
 

Please check this document as well, search for recording
 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/voice/vxml/developer/guide/vxmlprg.html
 
 

Thanks for the link, but unfortunately I don't see any info in that doc on "whole call recording" either.

The recording discussed in your doc is the VXML 2.0 functionality that allows a caller to record their input at some point of the call flow. The key difference between THAT and 'whole call recording' are: 1) the former only records part of the conversation while the latter records the entire conversation on the IVR call, and 2) the former records only the caller-side of the call while the latter records both sides of the call (i.e. the caller AND the system).
 
BTW, i just noticed that the Voxeo link i gave earlier is not always working (depending on how you get there). So, to see a more detailed explanation, go to: http://www.vxml.org/, scroll all the way down the navigation panel (on the left) and click on the voxeo:recordcall link.
 
Hope someone on the gateway team can provide a more definitive answer on my original questions (repeated here):
 
1) Is whole call recording supported by the Cisco IOS browser?
2) If so, please kindly explain how this feature can be enabled and how the recordings can be obtained? Or point me to a doc that has this info.
 
Thanks,
Rachel

Please visit this link and look in to chapter 23
 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cust_contact/contact_center/customer_voice_portal/cvp4_1/programming/guide/cvp41ele.pdf
 
Thanks
Vijay

RE: Whole Call Recording
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3/6/10 9:20 AM as a reply to Vijay Prasad Neelamegam.
Hi Vijay,
 
Interestingly, I happen to be very familiar with the CVP Element Spec doc you just mentioned.
 
Chapter 23 of that doc is NOT about 'whole call recording', but about the other VXML 2.0 recording functionality detailed in my last post. I mentioned a few key differences between the two in that post.
 
I was told this is the correct forum to post questions specifically about the Cisco IOS VXML browser. Please kindly let me know the answers to these questions:
 
1) Is "whole call recording" supported by the Cisco IOS browser (as it IS by other existing VXML 2.0 browsers such as Tellme and Voxeo)?
2) If so, please explain how this feature can be enabled, either in the gateway or in the application, and how the recordings can be obtained afterwards. OR, please point me to a doc that has this info.
 
Thanks,
Rachel

Just got this from a devloper of Cisco IOS VXML browser team.
Verdict is "I don't think we support whole call recording."
 
Please stay tuned for the final confirmation.
 
Thanks !

Ok, this is confirmed.
 
If you refer to the follow then I am sorry to say that is not supported.
 
Thanks,
 
Yawming
 


<voxeo:recordcall>  element

The <voxeo:recordcall> element is a proprietary extension to the VoiceXML specification that allows the developer to record both sides of a call, recording the human and the application interaction to a wav file that is stored in the developer's Voxeo File Manager in the 'recordings' subdirectory. <voxeo:recordcall> can record to a stereo audio file and contains *two* 8-bit streams, (note that two 8-bit streams is not the same as recording in 16 bit). Note that using the <vxml xmlns:voxeo> element/attribute pairing is required for the inclusion of this extension element in your code. Also be aware that attempting to 'turn on' call recording while it has already been enabled will result in a fatal application error. However, you are free to turn it on and off at your leisure within the application by using the 'value' attribute.





usage

<voxeo:recordcall info="CDATA" value="(0-100)">
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Thanks for the update! Two follow-up questions:
 
1) As "whole call recording" is such a critical feature from the application tuning perspective, does Cisco have plans to support the feature in the (near) future? If so, any idea on the ETA or in which future version of the IOS browser (the feature wll be added)?
 
2) In absence of a solution in the VXML gateway, any recommendations on how this can be achieved outside of the gateway? Are you aware of any 3rd party tool that can do this with some success?
 
Any info or comments appreciated!
 
Thanks,
Rachel

I have forwarded your question to marketing team, I will let you know as soon as I hear from them.
Regarding 2nd quesion, I wonder if you have a Cisco SE work with you ? If you have maybe you can ask SE. This is more like a solution question. But anyway I will try to see if anyone can answer your questions.
 
Thanks !
 
 
 

Hi Rachel,
 
Is it possible that you can tell us more detail  about your end application ?
If you like to do it privately please send to asg-ervm-tcl@cisco.com
 
I was told if want ¿generic¿ call recording feature, there might be some way to do it using 3rd party apps and using span protocol on the switch to fork media.

 
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Thanks,
 
Yawming

By the way what is the ¿application tuning¿ refer to ?
 
 
Thanks,
 
Yawming
 


Hi Rachel,
 
I've been wanting that feature, I don't know that Cisco IOS is ever going to support it.
 
I found a great solution, the only hitch is that that the leg you want to record must be a VoIP leg as this software acts like a network sniffer and grabs the VoIP packets off your network.  Yes, it records both directions on that leg, which is what you are looking for.
 
http://www.miarec.com/
 
I am in no way affiliated with MiaRec/Duxoft
 
Hope that helps,
Traivs

RE: Whole Call Recording

Hi,
I knew this is very old post now. I'm also looking for this functionality and wanted to check if this feature added/available in any of the latest version of IOS?
Regards,
Feroz Syed

I think 'whole call recording' is supported on Nuance (if you are using that for speech recog)

Regards
Anupam

Thanks Anupam! We don't have speach recog. I'm looking for CISCO solution as we are on CVP 8.5 platform. I went through some documents and found something related to Media Forking which supported by CISO Media Sense. I'm not sure if this servers the perpose that I'm looking for. If anyone could provide  more on this , that would be great. 
 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cust_contact/contact_center/mediasense/853/srnd/cms853srnd.pdf

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