Alec Saunders SquawkBox

One of the truly great values of Calliflower is our international conference call network.  Using local dial numbers, we offer flat rate international conference calling in a growing number of cities around the world.  If you make even a few international conference calls a month, you can’t fail to save big with Calliflower. 

This week saw a number of upgrades to our network. 

• Tuesday we added Barcelona Spain – our first Spanish conference call local dial-access number.
• On Thursday we upgraded our VoIP service to a dedicated switch.  Our partner, TringMe, had recommended this after observing that our traffic was beginning to swamp the switch we shared with their other clients.  Users of our VoIP service should see an improvement in call quality as a result.
• Today we added Warsaw and Wroclaw Poland – our first Polish conference call local dial access numbers.

Give the Calliflower International Conference Call network a try, and let us know how we’re doing.

Have a great weekend!

I confess that I gave TringMe’s new offering, VoicePHP, a quick once over last week, and didn’t spend nearly enough time with it.  Perhaps it was the pitch that included the line “Everything else remains the same in PHP except that echo, print now speaks!”.  Nevertheless, I had a closer look at it this morning.  VoicePHP looks like it might be the answer for those looking to create a quick and dirty voice app using a familiar programming language.

VoicePHP is an implementation of PHP that allows voice input to be captured, and voice output to be played back to a user.  Accessed via a telephone, it would be well suited to creating applications that are traditionally built with IVR systems.  The big advantage is that using VoicePHP to write a voice app is no different from writing any other kind of PHP application, and that means that millions of programmers already know how to do it.  TringMe has also added some specialized APIs for call control, text messaging, and a few other telephony specific functions.  For PHP programmers these shouldn’t be a stretch. 

Thumbs up!  This is another welcome addition to the lexicon of programming languages that can now be used to create voice applications.