Telephony

When I moved from Chicago to Denver in 2010, I got myself a Google Voice number as an easy way to have access to a local phone number. Once you have a Google Voice number in most cases you can port it away from Google for a small fee and that can be your new …

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Part of our Back to the Basics Series. See also: PSTN, VoIP, and SIP Trunking. It’s not cliché to say that telephony comprise some of the most complex systems that a business has to deal with. One of the reasons for this is that telephony isn’t just one single thing. It constitutes the actual technology, infrastructure, …

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Part of our Back to the Basics Series. See also: PSTN, VoIP, and Telephony. SIP trunking sounds like something one does on a vacation in warm climes with at least one fruity drink in hand. In actuality it’s more akin to those employees at the airport do who wave big light sticks at airplanes. (Their job …

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Part of our Back to the Basics Series. See also: PSTN, SIP Trunking, and Telephony. IVR Solutions Setting itself apart from traditional telephone network methods (PSTN) – companies that provide VoIP services give you a personalized VoIP number which allows your company to receive and also make phone calls from any device with an internet connection …

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Part of our Back to the Basics Series. See also: VoIP, SIP Trunking, and Telephony. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” Oh wait, that’s not the case at all. It was Alexander Graham Bell, in the U.S., with a patent. While that may read more like winning recipe to the game Clue, …

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Speech synthesis, or text-to-speech (TTS), is the computer-based creation of artificial speech from normal language text. Not to be confused with recorded audio playback, TTS is computer-generated speech formed from text. How It Works There are two main components of a TTS system: The first is natural language processing (NLP), which converts raw text (including …

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