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June 01, 2010

Voxeo Expands Free Developer Program



By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor


Voxeo, a provider of Unlocked Communications, has launched a free international developer program.

According to a release, the company has expanded its free developer program to include international SMS numbers, support for European languages and local Direct Inward Dialing (DID) numbers.

According to company officials these enhancements, which are targeted at developers in EMEA, allow for the creation of voice, IVR, text and multi-channel communications applications in a free development environment.

In addition to the U.S. phone numbers currently available for developers to use in testing their applications, developers can now use country-specific numbers throughout EMEA. Over 100,000 developers use Voxeo (News - Alert)'s platform and Voxeo's production applications are deployed globally.


Company officials pointed out that Voxeo's developer portal provides free hosted access to the Prophecy Platform as well as resources, and technical support for the easy creation of Interactive Voice Response (IVR), voice recognition, VoIP, SMS or communications applications.

"Our goal is to reduce the friction in the industry that has prevented developers from building international next-generation communications applications," said Jonathan Taylor, CEO at Voxeo, in the release.

Taylor said that with these new enhancements to the hosted developer program the company is making it simple for anyone to get started building a truly global application using voice or SMS.

In March Voxeo had announced the worldwide launch of its Tropo cloud communications API. Tropo extends web applications to easily drive communications via Twitter, telephone, text messaging (SMS) and instant messaging (IM).

For example, service providers can write a web application enabling customers to check account balances, and use Tropo to extend the application to let customers check the same balance by phone, Twitter, SMS or IM.

Tropo is the first real-time API with Twitter support and the only such platform available worldwide. Using Tropo's single, simple API, developers can add Twitter, telephone, and IM communications features to any new or existing web application. Tropo supports any web programming language including Groovy, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, and .Net.

Before Tropo, such services included only voice and SMS communications, were limited to North America, and required XML bloat not favored by modern web developers. Tropo features both direct-API and JSON-based development interfaces and is always free for development. Users pay only when applications are deployed in a production capacity.


Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Patrick Barnard


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