GNU Bayonne: telephony services for freely licensed operating systems

GNU Bayonne is a middle-ware telephony server that can be used to create and deploy script driven telephony application services. These services interact with users over the public telephone network. What we are hoping to do is enable, using commodity PC hardware and CTI cards running under GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, which often are available from numerous vendors, to create carrier applications like Voice Mail and calling card systems, as well as enterprise applications such as unified messaging. GNU Bayonne can be used to provide voice response for e-commerce systems and has been used in this role in various e-gov projects. GNU Bayonne can also be used to telephony enable existing scripting languages such as perl and python.