1st release of the VoIP Drupal platform!

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Posted by leoburd on March 3, 2011 at 1:59am

Hello all,

It is with great pleasure that I would like to announce the first release of the VoIP Drupal platform: http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal!

VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites.

VoIP Drupal can be used to build hybrid applications that combine regular touchtone phones, web, SMS, Twitter, IM and other communication tools in a variety of ways, including:

  • Click-to-call functions
  • Voice- and SMS-based Go Out to Vote campaigns
  • 2-1-1 and 3-1-1 lines
  • Phone-based community surveys
  • PTA reminders
  • Story recording / playback
  • Group voicemail
  • Geo-based callblasts aimed at specific streets or locations
  • And much more

Technically speaking, the goal of VoIP Drupal is to provide a common API and scripting system that interoperate with popular Internet-telephony servers (Asterisk, FreeSwitch, Tropo, Twilio, etc) dramatically reducing the learning and development costs associated with the construction of communication systems that combine voice and text technologies together.

The following VoIP servers are currently supported:

  • Tropo, through the voiptropo.module (available soon)
  • Twilio, through the voiptwilio.module

This project is under continuous development. Discussions are taking place on the VoIP Drupal Group.

Please check the VoIP Drupal Handbook for additional information.

The VoIP Drupal platform has originally been conceived and implemented by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/).

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Congrats!

Posted by bryanhirsch on March 3, 2011 at 9:03am
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Congrats Leo! I know you've put so much work into this. Very exciting!

Thanks, Bryan!

Posted by leoburd on March 3, 2011 at 9:53pm
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You gave a good hand (and brains) to us right at the beginning of the project -- and that was much appreciated!

Hey, would you like to be a co-maintainer for the soon-to-be-released callblast.module?

.L.

Sure. I continue to be very

Posted by bryanhirsch on March 4, 2011 at 1:58pm
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Sure. I continue to be very excited about this module's potential. Can't wait to see it out in the world! I'd be happy to be a co-maintainer.

(Glad to know it's a "co-" you're looking for. While I'm happy to help, I don't have the bandwidth to be a sole maintainer right now. But I'd be happy to help maintain it.)

sweet...

Posted by irishgringo on March 3, 2011 at 12:56pm
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I'll be watching this project...

Let us know if we can be of

Posted by leoburd on March 3, 2011 at 9:55pm
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Let us know if we can be of any help...

.L.

Sounds great! I look forward

Posted by eric_sea on March 3, 2011 at 3:18pm
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Sounds great! I look forward to checking it out!

Re: Sounds great! I look forward

Posted by leoburd on March 3, 2011 at 9:54pm
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Let us know if you have any questions, ok?

.L.

sweet

Posted by that0n3guy on March 4, 2011 at 3:36am
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I'll be watching this as well... I've been using twilio for over a year now and drupal integration is SWEEET.

We need some Rules integration... Then we can make openvbx-like flows. :)

Awesome

Posted by kotnik on March 4, 2011 at 9:16am
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Congratulations!

Enquiry on VOIP Drupal

Posted by tonyvu on March 4, 2011 at 4:10pm
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Hi

Great job. I have been looking for VOIP on Drupal for some time. This is a good news for many people.
I wanted to add voice chat and video chat option for my text chat module. May I know if it is possible to have that with current stage of VOIP Drupal?

Thanks

Re: Enquiry on VOIP Drupal

Posted by leoburd on March 4, 2011 at 5:48pm
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Hello there,

Thanks for your interest in the VoIP Drupal platform. The current API supports the creation of phone-based conference calls. Depending on the VoIP server that you might decide to use, it may also be possible to add calls from Skype or IM to the conference.

However, if you're trying to integrate video + voice + text into the browser, I'm afraid you might have to look into web-based conference systems such as BigBlueButton (http://demo.bigbluebutton.org/).

BTW, it would be great if we could integrate regular phone calls and SMS with BigBlueButton!

Cheers,

Leo

Thanks. I will try!

Posted by hodota on March 5, 2011 at 1:15am
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Hello list,

Thank you for VoIP Drupal module and I will try it. I think VoIP is important on business communications that use telephone and FAX everyday at company,especial small non-IT companies.

Cheers,
Kazu Hodota

kazu Hodota Gennai3 Corporation email: hodota@gennai3.co.jp

Awesome!

Posted by plditallo on March 7, 2011 at 6:38pm
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I've been working with Voxeo this weekend. It looks like this is perfect timing. I haven't looked at the details of the downloaded zip yet--but I may as well ask this question anyway--do I install Drupal 6.x first, then the modules from this *.zip over it--or is this a separate and standalone Drupal install?

Kind regards,

Paula DiTallo, CABM
plditallo@ieee.org
plditallo@metro-design-dev.com
url: www.metro-design-dev.com

Re: Awesome!

Posted by leoburd on March 7, 2011 at 7:50pm
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Hello Paula,

Thanks for your interest in VoIP Drupal. VoIP Drupal should be installed just like any other Drupal module. There is no separate install required.

Our voiptropo.module is in the oven and should be available in the next week or so. In the meanwhile, please play with the existing modules and let us know what you think, ok?

Best,

Leo

Leo, Will do! I've got big

Posted by plditallo on March 7, 2011 at 8:49pm
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Leo,

Will do! I've got big plans for this framework!:)

Kind regards,

Paula DiTallo, CABM
plditallo@ieee.org
plditallo@metro-design-dev.com
url: www.metro-design-dev.com

Drupal 7

Posted by kentendo on March 8, 2011 at 5:25pm
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Hey Leo,

Do you have any plans for Drupal 7? I would love to help out. Wish I was at DrupalCon right now!

Leo, I'm in with kentendo. If

Posted by plditallo on March 10, 2011 at 8:15pm
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Leo,
I'm in with kentendo. If you need some help with Drupal 7 just ping me!

Kind regards,

Paula DiTallo, CABM
plditallo@ieee.org
plditallo@metro-design-dev.com
url: www.metro-design-dev.com

Re: Drupal 7

Posted by leoburd on March 17, 2011 at 4:01pm
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We are currently implementing a few updates in the existing VoIP Drupal API. Once that is done, it would be great to start working on a Drupal 7 version of VoIP Drupal!

If you are interested in joining this project, would you mind sending me a brief description of your current experience with Drupal 7 and your hopes (expected uses) for VoIP Drupal?

Cheers,

Leo

Asterisk Integration

Posted by Caterpilllar on April 12, 2011 at 7:28am
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Hi! I need a plugin to work with Asterisk.
Someone had to deal with it.
I do not know how to create it. = ((

Re: Asterisk Integration

Posted by leoburd on April 12, 2011 at 1:51pm
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Hello Caterpillar,

We've just got some people who are interested in implementing an Asterisk module for VoIP Drupal. Would you mind telling us about the ways in which you envision using this module as part of your organization?

Best,

Leo

Re: Asterisk Integration

Posted by Caterpilllar on April 13, 2011 at 7:26am
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Hi Leo,

Have an idea to use the plug-in for calls to users on the phone if an urgent need to notify. I would like to use the plugin to your module, rather than a specialized module. Is it possible to realize?

Re: Asterisk Integration

Posted by leoburd on April 18, 2011 at 6:06pm
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Hello Caterpillar,

I'm not sure I understood your request. If your goal is to make phone calls whenever there's something urgent to be notified, then you can definitely use VoIP Drupal for that.

In fact, we should be releasing the messaging_voip module in the next couple of days. That module provides integration with Drupal's messaging framework and should make it very easy to implement phone-based system notifications.

Cheers,

Leo

change default voice

Posted by drupaldev06 on February 17, 2013 at 1:25pm
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Hi Leo,
In plivo server configuration there is option for choose male voice in american or male voice in scottish language. But i want to put there my national language(Hindi). How i can show there hindi language(in plivo server configuration).
Thnx

Re: change default voice

Posted by leoburd on February 17, 2013 at 2:51pm
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Dear akhil15,

Thanks for your message. It would be awesome to integrate Hindi into VoIP Drupal!

Unfortunately, neither Plivo, Twilio or Tropo currently support Hindi natively. Do you know of any online service that we could use to convert Hindi text to audio files (text to speech)?

Best,

Leo

Follow-up

Posted by empowerbop on April 19, 2013 at 5:07am
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This question is due to my lack of understanding. All I want is record a voice and broadcast. In those situation, why would "Hindi" or "Gujarati" or other translation come?
This is just a voice.

I am assuming that this is already possible.

Perhaps, I really don't understand a use case properly here.

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