Want to see a multi-channel application in action? As part of our announcement today about expanded capabilities of VoiceObjects On-Demand, I put together this video that shows a single application running up in Voxeo’s hosted cloud interacting with users via: voice, through a regular phone call instant messaging (IM), through Jabber a web browser, on [...]
Want to see how easy it is to get started with VoiceObjects On-Demand to build apps that interact with people using voice, SMS, IM and mobile web? Check out this video tutorial where I show all of that in a few minutes: To get started yourself, visit: http://www.voxeo.com/vo-ondemand/ You just need VoiceObjects 10 and a [...]
In addition to being able to place and receive SIP-based phone calls to and from our browser using PhonoSDK, you can also use it to interact with XMPP-based IM clients such as GTalk and Jabber using jQuery. PhonoSDK uses Adobe’s Flash to control microphone permissions and transport the audio. Flash automatically loads when the PhonoSDK [...]
Have you been itching to try out Node.JS for a real-time communication app? Perhaps a voice application? Or a SMS or IM agent? Or a Twitter-bot? Did you read about our Node.js library for the Tropo Web API released back in October and think “That would be a cool way to learn Node.js!” But have [...]
Justin Dupree, Tropo’s Chief Technical Writer and Evangelist, asked me the other day if it would be possible to build a web application that could carry on a conversation over SMS with another user. ”Of course it is!”, I said while scratching my head. Armed with PhonoSDK, Tropo Scripting API, CouchDB, and Dominique Boucher’s blog post on building [...]
Are you building real-time gaming applications that use the phone (Voice or DTMF touch-tone) and require immediate response to your application? Ever wondered how to get input from a caller at the speed of light – rather than traditional AJAX API calls? Tropo’s Scripting API allows you to do all sorts of interesting hacks to [...]
Dominique Boucher, the CTO of Nu Echo, created a post on their company’s blog demonstrating how simple it was to create an IM (Instant Messaging) chat application using the PhonoSDK. We were so impressed with his work, we asked for permission to repost his article on our blog and he agreed. We love our developers! [...]
The Voxeo team unveiled Phono just a few weeks ago. Phono is an open-source SDK to embed telephones and instant messaging services in your web pages. With Phono, you can (among other things) add click-to-call buttons to your call center or your applications hosted on one of Voxeo’s platforms (and you will eventually be able [...]
Over the next bit I’m going to profile a number of different Unified Self-Service examples to show how multi-channel communication can help connect people with the information they want using the communication channel of their choice. The first example I’ll mention is the “opensenate” project that independent developer Mark Headd launched back in June 2009 [...]
