SpeechTEK conference schedule application
Aculab is pleased to be a sponsor of SpeechTEK 2012 this week. For the event, we decided to provide a little more than just a product demo, so we created an application that conference delegates would find very useful – an automated conference schedule.
The app took just a few hours to develop and incorporates the fundamentals of any IVR system, including the use of TTS.
Below is the call flow and some code snippets from the application.
Anatomy of a predictive dialler
Making, connecting and managing calls
A significant number of telephony services use outbound and blended predictive dialler systems. For many corporations incorporating proactive contact and notification strategies in their operations, through companies employing interactive voice messaging (IVM) (also referred to as ‘outbound IVR’) and voice broadcasting, to businesses whose prime purpose is debt collection, outbound technologies are a key component.
Outbound and blended campaigns enable enterprises to proactively reach their customers and prospects. For many, this plays a valuable role in ensuring a superior service outcome for customers and ensures efficient and effective use of agent resources. For companies whose primary business is to fill sales pipelines, streamline collections or aid telemarketing and fundraising efforts, the telephony application and software utilised is directly associated with revenue generation.
An inspiring use of cloud telephony
We were very pleased to report this week that Aculab Cloud is being used to aid the development of a quick and cost effective method of objectively scoring the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, through the detection of changes in the voice.
Max Little, who leads the Parkinson Voice Initiative, realised that a person’s voice is affected as much by Parkinson’s as is limb movement, so he devised a high-accuracy way to detect symptoms through the analysis of voice recordings. A method of detecting Parkinson’s disease that is quick, cheap and easy to perform.
With so many people affected by Parkinson’s, it’s likely we all know someone who could benefit from the results of this project. The analysis itself requires quite complex algorithms, but capturing the voice clips for analysis is a very simple and quick process. Using Aculab Cloud, The Parkinson’s Voice Initiative application plays a number of pre-recorded questions and exercises for the caller to complete. In turn, these responses are recorded and stored. It takes on average 3 minutes for the caller to complete the survey.
The Parkinson’s Voice Initiative aims to record 10,000 voices across the world – and needs voices of both healthy and Parkinson’s patients. The Initiative has already achieved an outstanding 20% of this goal with the help of Aculab Cloud. If you are interested in participating please call UK 01865 521168 or US 857 284 8035 to take part or view http://www.parkinsonsvoice.org/index.php for further numbers and information.
Cloud telephony – making speech technologies affordable
Having previously discovered in this blog the many benefits that cloud computing and indeed cloud telephony can bring, you may be wondering about the opportunities that cloud presents. What can cloud telephony enable you to do that previously hasn’t been economically viable for both enterprises and SMBs? This post touches on a particular area into which cloud telephony is set to breathe new life. It will focus on the impact a cloud telephony approach can have on the uptake of premium tools/resources, such as speech recognition and synthetic speech, to the benefit of businesses, both large and small. Continue reading
Why is fax still in demand?
You might think that with the popularity and maturity of email and other modes of electronic communication (including good old voice) that the use of fax would all be but extinct. But fax is still very much alive in the present. We may not find ourselves personally sending faxes everyday, indeed many of us may not have a fax number on our business cards any longer, but there are still a number of niche applications for fax that will see it with us for quite a few years to come. So where is the market opportunity for faxing? Continue reading
Where are the Cloud Media Servers?
Media servers are really useful things as Unwieldy Systems Inc. will tell you, but you already knew that, right. If you’re a telecommunication service provider, an equipment manufacturer, a solution developer or even an enterprise customer, you are likely to have a need for a media server and may well be using one, or two or several, somewhere in your network or infrastructure.
In a traditional telephony environment, media servers are used for functions such as network announcements and voicemail; interactive voice response (in many, diverse scenarios); the IMS Media Resource Function; audio conferencing; caller ring tones; and transcoding. Continue reading
HOW TO: Optimizing Aculab Cloud Platform Usage in Outbound Dialling
How to optimize your outbound telephony application using Aculab Cloud
Aculab Cloud provides you with the means to make outbound calls for just about any purpose. Using Aculab Cloud’s simple, high-level APIs to launch outbound calls, numbers can be manually or automatically dialled, and what happens during and after call set-up can be controlled by the application. For example, an answering machine can be detected, using what’s called call progress analysis, whereupon the system will wait for the tone or ‘beep’, before playing a message or otherwise interacting with the called party’s device. Continue reading
BeQuick Software Choose Aculab Cloud as their Next Gen IVR partner
This week we are pleased to share the news that BeQuick are using Aculab Cloud to handle volumes of IVR calls. BeQuick Software delivers an innovative hosted BSS/OSS solution called QuickTel designed and developed for the telecommunications industry and specifically for Prepaid, Postpaid and VoIP service providers. Continue reading
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