Questions tagged [tropo]

Tropo is a cloud communications service which provides web applications the opportunity to send and receive phone calls, SMS text messages and instant messages.

Tropo is a cloud API for sending and receiving phone calls, SMS, and instant messaging. It allows web applications to use these means communication with existing scripting languages (e.g. PHP, Ruby, C#).

It is a service run by Voxeo, a large voice application provider.

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letters to touch tone number output

I tried Googling this but not sure what's the best thing to look for. What I am trying to do is to translate a text input to output the letters of a touch tone phone. For example Hello World would output 43550 96153the idea is I'm trying to use the…
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SMS receiving confirmation

I am trying out different things with Twilio, but open for other solutions with Nexmo, Tropo or Plivo. Here's a situation, I am sending an SMS texts from a server to bunch of clients. I can get a status back: like queued, sending, sent, or failed.…
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What are the differences between VoiceXML and TwiML / PlivoXML?

I have been tasked to research the differences between these two implementations to better understand the differences between the two when it comes to development difficulty and feature set but I have not found any clear and concise comparisons…
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Django/Python testing using Mock for third party API

I have a code which I am trying to test using Mock library/python-django. To give brief summary of my application is: (PHASE I): Client use my app exposed API. The mapped API function make a HTTP Connection request to 3rd party API ( Tropo which are…
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Trying to create a simple local grammar in Tropo application written in Python

I'm creating an application in Tropo using Python and I was wondering if I could create a small grammar that is local. I've read about external grammars SRGS and GRXML but can I create one using a Python list right in the code. Below is what I'm…
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Receiving xml file via hosted php tropo script

How do you place a phone call using tropo by sending xml to a tropo hosted script? This php script is supposed to use curl to post xml to another php script (hosted @ tropo). The tropo-hosted script is then supposed to use the xml to place a phone…
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What reserved SMS keywords should a developer include when building SMS apps?

When building an SMS app, there are some "reserved" keywords, such as HELP and STOP that are commonly expected to perform a certain function. MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) has published the following best practices:…
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Recording and sending user input

Up till now, I have been my asking the user to send an integer (from choices: 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5) as the possible reply to the messages. I then give back to the user their choice of integer before moving forward to the next message. So my messages have…
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How do I dial the PSTN with Asterisk?

I am playing around with WebRTC and would like to dial a real landline from my web browser by connecting through Asterisk. I've followed this tutorial http://nerdvittles.com/?p=5321 for connecting to asterisk through WebRTC, but I don't know how…
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Is there any way to set the maximum duration of a Tropo call?

According to the online documentation, Tropo calls are limited to 2 hours. Is there any way to change that value? In other words, is there any way to set the maximum duration of a Tropo call?
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Validating Tropo's HTTP Request

Whenever you launch a Tropo Session, it will send the session information to the URL attached with the token. I would like validate this session dump request from my server end. For Twilio you will get "x-twilio-signature" header. I am curious to…
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Unable to change say voice in Tropo MVC

I'm using the Tropo MVC classes and have a problem with changing the voice in the say. Setting the voice property of the say object does not seem to change the voice for example: Say say1 = new Say("This is first voice"); …
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Tropo setting voice not working?

I am trying to make this line work: tropo.say("Some text","kate"); Documentation But this line breaks the node.js app I am writing. If I don't specify the voice then it works fine. For example: tropo.say("Some text"); Any tropo guru here that can…
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Javascript trigger Tropo script issue

Looking to place a button that triggers a simple SMS script on my Tropo account using jQuery and an Ajax get request. The button does not need to open anything, but simply trigger the Tropo script (JS) to send an SMS. The URL with token given on…
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Tropo WebAPI with Drupal Module

I'm trying to extend the functionality of a Drupal website to include Tropo service. I absolutely need to be able to access my Drupal database and the API that Drupal provides me for its own workings. I am fairly new at writing Drupal modules, but…
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