CallFlow – now with TTS

There’s been some excitment in the office recently, reminisent of spending time in my high school Spanish classes looking up words in the dictionary I probably shouldn’t have been looking up. This excitment is about the latest CallFlow feature, text to speech.

Adding text to speech to your CallFlow app couldn’t be easier, simply adding a <text> element to either an <announcement> or <prompt> parent will read out your text. It really couldn’t be easier, but we went a little bit further than that, adding different voices and language support and also going someway to support Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML).

There is a lot of really interesting potential uses for this feature, and I’m looking forward to hearing about how people are using it.

Communications as a Service

SIP stacks, PSTN gateways, media servers, SER gateways, XML gateways, PKI and more.  It’s all fun stuff (honest), but there’s a lot there.  One of the reasons why you may be reading this is that you’ve thought about adding some voice or messaging features to an existing application but neither have the time, nor patience to learn how to plug all of this stuff together to make a few phones ring.  That’s where we come in.

Making phones ring is what we do, and is quite a powerful thing to achieve from code.  You’ll have to take my word that the team got quite excited about playing calling phones, playing announcements and other fun stuff when this all started, and also when new features are introduced. 

That leaves me with my final point:  What we’re trying to provide is communication as a service.  A hosted service ‘in the cloud’ that does cool stuff with phones. 

Moving on, we’d really like to hear from you, particularly if you’ve used our services in an innovate way, or our services have helped you solved a business problem, please do get in touch.

- Robbie