Twilio cookbook : over 70 easy-to-follow recipes, from exploring the key features of Twilio to building advanced telephony apps /: over 70 easy-to-follow recipes, from exploring the key features of Twilio to building advanced telephony apps. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roger Stringer ; cover image by Rick Cartledge.
• Authors: Stringer, Roger; Cartledge, Rick
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Into the Frying Pan; Introduction; Adding two-factor voice authentication to verify users; Using Twilio SMS to set up two-factor authentication for secure websites; Adding order verification; Adding the Click-to-Call functionality to your website; Recording a phone call; Setting up a company directory; Setting up Text-to-Speech; Chapter 2: Now We're Cooking; Introduction; Tracking account usage; Screening calls; Buying a phone number; Setting up a voicemail system. Building an emergency calling systemChapter 3: Conducting Surveys via SMS; Introduction; Why use PDO instead of the standard MySQL functions?; Letting users subscribe to receive surveys; Building a survey tree; Sending a survey to your users; Adding tracking for each user; Listening to user responses and commands; Building a chart of responses; Chapter 4: Building a Conference Calling System; Introduction; Scheduling a conference call; Sending an SMS to all participants at the time of the call; Starting and recording a conference; Joining a conference call from the web browser. Monitoring the conference callMuting a participant; Chapter 5: Combining Twilio with Other APIs; Introduction; Searching for local businesses via text; Getting the local weather forecast; Searching for local movie listings; Searching for classifieds; Getting local TV listings; Searching Google using SMS; Searching the stock market; Getting the latest headlines; Chapter 6: Sending and Receiving SMS Messages; Introduction; Sending a message from a website; Replying to a message from the phone; Forwarding SMS messages to another phone number; Sending bulk SMS to a list of contacts. Tracking orders with SMSSending and receiving group chats; Sending SMS messages in a phone call; Monitoring a website; Chapter 7: Building a Reminder System; Introduction; Scheduling reminders via text; Getting notified when the time comes; Retrieving a list of upcoming reminders; Canceling an upcoming reminder; Adding another person to a reminder; Chapter 8: Building an IVR System; Introduction; Setting up IVRs; Screening and recording calls; Logging and reporting calls; Looking up HighriseHQ contacts on incoming calls; Getting directions; Leaving a message. Sending an SMS to your Salesforce.com contactsChapter 9: Building Your Own PBX; Introduction; Getting started with PBX; Setting up a subaccount for each user; Letting a user purchase a custom phone number; Allowing users to make calls from their call logs; Allowing incoming phone calls; Allowing outgoing phone calls; Deleting a subaccount; Chapter 10: Digging into OpenVBX; Introduction; Building a call log plugin; Building a searchable company directory; Collecting Stripe payments; Tracking orders; Building a caller ID routing plugin; Testing call flows.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (334 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 006.454; COMPUTERS -- Internet -- General; Automatic speech recognition; Speech processing systems; Automatic speech recognition; Speech processing systems; Telephone; Text files; COMPUTERS -- General; Automatic speech recognition; Speech processing systems; COMPUTERS -- Web -- General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783550661; 1783550651; 9781783550654
• Related ISBNs: 178355066X; 9781783550654
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2014).
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