Voice Application Hacking with Twilio - Six Hour Startup this Sunday at Colins Pub @ 4pm
Robert Eickmann
your web development skills to build applications that make or receive
phone calls. You can add voice features to your existing application,
or build something new from the ground up. Twilio's simple REST/XML
API consists of five Verbs, that allow you to build nearly any phone
application you can imagine:
<Gather> Which collects key presses
<Play> Which plays back any computer audio file that is web accessible
<Record> Which records audio spoken over the phone
<Say> which speaks the text you pass to the API.
<Dial> which calls another phone number, connecting two callers together
The functions integrate with any web development stack, PHP, Ruby on
Rails, Django or any other RESTful application stack.
We think Twilio is a great system made by a local Seattle
entrepreneur, and we are excited that we are going to get to use it
this weekend. Twilio is going to give a brief overview of the service,
and have people on hand to help us 'turn on' phone services for our
existing projects or new ones that we dream up. Twilio will be
donating services to get our projects up and running for free at the
event.
Here are some project ideas that we're confident can be built in 6 hours:
Dial A Joke
- Call a phone number, get a joke read to you!
Office PBX
- Answers the company phone, plays a greeting, and lets the caller
enter an extension to hear hours, directions or to speak with a person
E-Commerce Integration
- Notify a customer when an order has shipped, handle incoming
requests for order status (has my order shipped yet?)
The developer documentation is located here:
http://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/
A great presentation of some of the exciting things you can do with
Twilio is located here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9077334633843278983
So bring yourself, your laptop, any existing application you might
want Twilio-ifying applications, some funny or not so funny jokes
(for the dial-a-joke idea) and prepare to have a good time at this
weekends Six Hour Startup!
Location:
526 Second Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
http://www.thecollinspub.com/
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Six Hour Startup is a Seattle, Washington, based organization focused
on the creation of a vibrant culture of entrepreneurship in the Puget
Sound area. We hold monthly Six Hour Startup events where we invite
members of the community to come and build a new product in a six hour
time frame. It is both a networking and educational event that is free
and open to the public.
