Comments on: Twilio Comes Out

By: Lav

Lav — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:33:29 +0000

Our company is looking into ways of reducing costs and Twilio is one of the options we are looking into. Thanks for the interesting review and for pointing out some additional options which we had no heard of yet.

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By: Kris subramanian

Kris subramanian — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:43:09 +0000

The issue is TwiML is that it is proprietary. That said, VXML is tough. Both are based on serving ML pages, so that means you need to run a webserver to serve the ML pages.

What if you want to integrate voice into a standlone EXE, where the logic is determined by your standalone app. To add telephony functionlity (Make a call, read out status, take a command and then hangup) you will need 3 systems to interact, Standalone app., a webserver to server ML pages and the telephony could (Twilio or Voxeo).

If telephony is controlled by SOAP based webservice calls, then any app can consume it. For each action send in a ML payload, which has the instructions for the telephony could to perform

By: Kris subramanian

Kris subramanian — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:40:05 +0000

The issue is TwiML is that it is proprietary. That said, VXML is tough. Both are based on serving ML pages, so that means you need to run a webserver to serve the ML pages.

What if you want to integrate voice into a standlone EXE, where the logic is determined by your standalone app. To add telephony you will need 3 systems to interact, Standalone app., a webserver to server ML pages and the telephony could (Twilio or Voxeo).

If telephony is controlled by SOAP based webservice calls, then any app can consume it. For each action send in a ML payload, which has the instructions for the telephony could to perform

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A Basic Voicemail System using Twilio « Solutious Blog — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:18:50 +0000

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Solutious Blog - A Basic Voicemail System using Twilio — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:27:24 +0000

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By: Bob Shand

Bob Shand — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:06:05 +0000

You mention Cloudvox – I like ruby and I’d like to see more of their service. I emailed them but heard nothing back… any idea when they’re likely to be handing out more keys?

By: Dominique Boucher

Dominique Boucher — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:38:30 +0000

Great post.

I have not studied Twilio’s XML language in great depth yet, but it’s clear that they try to offer a simpler alternative to VoiceXML/CCXML. And with reason. VoiceXML is such a beast. (And wait for VoiceXML 3.0…)

But developing DTMF only applications in VoiceXML is not necessarily much more difficult than with TwiML. You can easily abstract a subset of VoiceXML in your application and stick with that. Use VoiceXML as an interface between the voice resources (telephony, speech rec, etc.) and let your application drive the show. That’s what most service creation environments (VoiceObjects, Cisco CVP, etc.) do, btw.

Remember that Microsoft tried to offer an alternative with SALT not so long ago and did not really succeeed. I wish Twilio good luck!

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