Tropo just recently partnered with PamFax to deliver faxing capabilities via an API. Jason Goecke wrapped their API with a very simple Ruby gem called pamfaxr available at GitHub and installable using a “gem install pamfaxr” from your command line. Using the PamFaxr Ruby gem, I will demonstrate how to send a simple fax as well as how to build a Tropo Voice to Fax transcription application using our Scripting API!
When we released the new WebAPI last month, two things were missing. You couldn’t make an outbound call and transcription wasn’t available for recordings. Today we’ve added some things to make working with text and IM easier and brought parity to the Web and Scripting APIs, ensuring both have all the same features. So whether you want to host yourself and communicate over JSON or like the simplicity of our hosted Scripting API, you can do all the same things.
So you have got a great application, it does all this fancy stuff and now you want to add transcriptions, but how? Well its actually quite simple! Transcriptions in Tropo are sent as a XML body, via POST, to the URL specified in the transcriptionOutURI parameter of the recording method. So below I have taken an example from our blog which showed how to actually do a transcription using the the record method.
We have been busy adding additional features to Tropo with more to come. Today we are making available the ability to transcribe recorded audio and have the results posted to you via email or an HTTP POST. In addition to this, we have also created an option that allows you to send the recorded audio file out of the Tropo cloud directly to your servers via FTP or an HTTP POST. Now you may have easy access to recordings and what is being said!
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