Tropo Adds Transcription for Recordings
August 26th, 2009 by Jason GoeckeWe have been busy adding additional features to Tropo with more to come. Today we are making available the ability to transcribe recorded audio and have the results posted to you via email or an HTTP POST. In addition to this, we have also created an option that allows you to send the recorded audio file out of the Tropo cloud directly to your servers via FTP or an HTTP POST. Now you may have easy access to recordings and what is being said!
To take advantage of this all you need to do is add a few extra options to your record method. Here is a Ruby example:
answer say 'Welcome to ruby recording test' event = record('Say something after the beep.', { :repeat => 0, :bargein => true, :beep => true, :silenceTimeout => 2, :maxTime => 30, :timeout => 4.03456789, :recordURI => 'http://tropo.to-a-domain.com/post_audio?filename=file123456.wav', :transcriptionOutURI => 'http://tropo.to-a-domain.com/receive_transcription', :transcriptionID => '123456' }) log 'Recorded file: ' + event.recordURI say 'Thanks for your testing ruby on Tropo platform' hangup
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Don’t forget that these new options are available in any of the languages supported by Tropo. So do not hesitate to add this to your Groovy, Javascript, PHP, Perl or Ruby scripts today!
We have more to come shortly, so stay tuned for additional features and helper apps to take advantage of these new features.
Related posts:
- Get the Tropo sample applications – via git and Github
- Jason Goecke: Writing a Ruby app for Tropo
- Create an Audio, SMS and Instant Message Resume with Tropo Scripting
- Using Persistent Sockets in Tropo.com Applications
Tags: Groovy, JavaScript, perl, PHP, Python, record, recording, transcription
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