Voxeo Developers Corner

Have you wanted to develop and test applications that were globally accessible by your customers? Have you wanted your potential customers to be able to call into a number in Europe rather than having to call a US number or use Skype or SIP? Have you been excited about the idea of multi-channel applications that used voice and SMS… but wanted a SMS number from outside the US?

Now you can… with the free international developer program we just announced today. While our production customers have always been able to get phone numbers (DIDs) around the world and to make outbound calls to any country, developers using free accounts on our Evolution developer portal have been limited to free US numbers and to outbound calls in the US only. We have had a developer program for people outside the US for some time, but there were fees involved and it was too limited for what we really wanted to offer.

That has all changed – if you login to your Evolution account today (or create a new free account), you will find that you now have these new capabilities:

• SMS-enabled International Numbers - Moving beyond simply using voice, developers can add SMS-enabled numbers and enable their application to communicate with customers via both voice and text/SMS.  

• Support for New Languages  - Applications using Speech Recognition (ASR) or Speech Synthesis (TTS) can now choose from over 20 languages and voices, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Swedish, UK English and many more. See the full list online.

• Self-provisioning of International DID Numbers - Developers can easily add international inbound DID numbers from over 40 countries to their applications through a simple web interface. With a click in a web form, your application can be accessible from numbers around the world! (And naturally you can add multiple numbers to your app!)
  

• International Outbound Dialing - In the development environment, applications can make outbound calls for free to 18 countries, including: Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA. Note that the free calls are to landlines only, except for the USA where you can also call mobile numbers for free.

• Country-specific Developer Dial-In Numbers – Developers can now dial local numbers in countries across EMEA to test their applications. Previously developers could test using U.S. numbers, as well as using Skype or SIP. Now we’ve made it so that you and the people testing your app can dial numbers in local countries, enter your app ID as the PIN, and be talking to your app.
  

More information about this new program can be found in the developer program FAQ.

We’re excited to expand our free developer program globally and we’re looking forward to adding even more capabilities in the weeks and months ahead! Our goal is to make it easy for you all to build communication applications… and we’re looking forward to seeing what you all do with these new features.

Related posts:

1. Free Developer Jam Session webinar on Oct 7th – Build multi-channel apps that work across voice, SMS, IM, web and Twitter
2. Step-by-step: The process of creating a new CallXML, VoiceXML, or CCXML application in Voxeo’s Evolution developer portal and assigning a phone number
3. Voice Mashups – Using Phone Numbers as GeoTags to Get Directions
4. Developer Jam Session, June 24: Integrating advanced call control in VoiceObjects applications using CCXML
5. What the VoiceObjects acquisition by Voxeo means for voice application developers…

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