The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode (one recorded a while back) - an interview with Elizabeth Naramore, a well-known PHP community member.

This episode was recorded in 2011. Elizabeth now works for Orchestra.io. It's still a fun interview though because...well, it's Elizabeth.

You can find her blog here and follow her on Twitter here. If you'd like to listen to this latest episode, you can either listen in-page or download the mp3 directly.

On PHPBuilder.com today Jason Gilmore has a new tutorial showing how to create voice recognition applications with PHP and the help of open source voice interpretation tools.

Voice recognition or speech recognition technology is not easy to develop. In-house development would be very costly, and buying proprietary libraries that convert voice to text would make the developed application very expensive for end users. On the other hand, when developing in PHP, you have many open-source solutions available. The same dilemma happens with voice recognition in PHP -- there is an open-source class that can be used in voice applications. That way your application would cost less, and you also can offer it for free.

His tool of choice is Voice PHP, an open source project that uses four classes with support for SSML, SRGS, CCXML and VoiceXML. In his sample application he shows how to use the libraries to generate an application that can listen to a user's voice and translate that into certain menu options.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted it's latest episode - an interview with Sean Coates (of Gimmie Bar).

Cal asks Sean his three questions about various projects and topics he's involved with:

• Can you talk to us about what you see about the process of how PHP is developed and is this a positive or a negative?
• Can you give us a quick synopsis of why Gimmie Bar moved from CouchDb to MongoDb and are you still confident that it was the right decision?
• Can you talk a bit about your experience with Node.js?

You can listen to this episode either using the in-page player, by downloading the mp3

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode - an interview with Derick Rethans, the author of the popular PHP debugger XDebug and a core contributor to the PHP project.

Cal's questions mainly revolve around Derick's contributions the PHP core (and one on OpenStreetMap):

• Do you consider the current way PHP is developed functional or broken (and why)?
• What would you do to change the way PHP is developed and why would you want to do it that way?
• Explain to us what OpenStreetMap and why you think this is an important project.

You can listen to this latest episode either by using the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

On the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. This time it's Rafael Dohms, a member of the Brazilian PHP community.

Cal's questions for Rafael are related to

• The Brazilian PHP community has an umbrella organization that supports the local communities - can you describe how this works?
• Can you explain the differences in the communities between the two countries [USA and Brazil]?
• What one thing from the Brazilian PHP community would you like to see other communities use?

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

New on the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast is an interview with David Rogers, the organizer for the Orlando PHP User Group (Florida).

Cal asks David a few questions about his involvement in this group:

• Why did you get involved with the user group and why get involved in the leadership of it?
• Why did you decide to allow recruiters to post to your mailing list and has it had any kind of negative impact on the group or list?
• What was the coolest or best thing that you've done for a meeting?

As always, you can listen either by using the in-page player, downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has release their latest episode - a new interview with Bill Karwin.

Cal's "three questions" for Bill talk about both general development and SQL topics:

• Can you describe for us what second system syndrome is and why you think Zend Framework 2 falls into it?
• What's the biggest mistake you see project developers making when it comes to SQL?
• Can you briefly explain what is a SQL anti-pattern and give a few examples?

You can listen to this latest episode either by downloading the mp3, using the in-page player or by subscribing to the feed.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted its latest episode, an interview with Chris Spruck, the head of the Atlanta PHP User Group.

Cal asks Chris three questions about user groups and their dynamics.

• What's been your biggest success in the Atlanta PHP User Group?
• How do you keep your members interested in the group and its topics?
• What has been the best part about being a part of a user group for you?

You can listen to this latest episode via the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has release their latest episode today - an interview with Michael Maclean, a developer on the Cairo PHP project.

Cal asks Michael his "three questions" about his

• Explain to us what Cairo PHP is and why PHP developers should be interested in it.
• What is your role in the project and how did you get involved in such a unique project?
• Give us some examples of some real-world projects that use Cairo PHP.

You can listen to this new episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

On the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast there's a new episode interviewing Nicholas Zographos, the head of the Pittsburgh PHP User Group.

Cal's three questions revolve around Nicholas' work with the group:

• How many members do you have at a meeting, on your mailing list and what do you do to bring those members closer together.
• What is your meeting structure?
• How do you handle the variety of skill levels in the group?

You can listen the usual three ways - either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3