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Voice Broadcasting

Created by: pgaz,Last modification on Tue 22 of Jul, 2008 [23:29 UTC] by ab25db

Voice Broadcasting

The following is the definition for Voice Broadcasting from Wikipedia:

  • "Voice broadcasting is a mass communication technique, begun in the 1990s, that broadcasts telephone messages to hundreds or thousands of call recipients at once. This technology has both commercial and community applications. Voice broadcast users can contact targets (whether they be members, subscribers, constituents, employees, or customers) almost immediately."

Voice broadcasting phone software manages a database of phone lists as well as digitized phone messages. Using analog, digital or VOIP telephony components, these computers can simultaneously broadcast thousands of phone messages. Personalized information can be included in the phone messages through the integration of text to voice software.

Advanced systems include telephony boards or software that can detect the difference between an answering machine and a 'live' person answering the call. These systems employ the logic to properly play a unique message to answering machines without message truncation.

VoiceXML and Voice Broadcasting

Phone messaging systems and services automatically send phone messages from a computer system to a remote phone systems using XML push logic. For example, alerts can be broadcast to tenants in a building if there is a fire or disaster. Heat sensors with IP connectivity that are installed in the tenant building can initiate an emergency voice broadcast by sending a VoiceXML message . Other applications may be as simple as wakeup calls or weather alerts that are triggered automatically from a computer system or websites.

VoiceXML Gateway Information

VoiceXML is a W3C standard for interactive telephone applications. The platform/server for VoiceXML is called a VoiceXML gateway. The gateway is like a web server, but it interprets VoiceXML command instead of HTML. You can test out VoiceXML applications with a hosted VoiceXML service, you could also setup your own VoiceXML gateway.

See Also (Vendor Information)


Voice Broadcasting Information


Voice Broadcast Applications



Voice Broadcasting Vendors


VoiceXML Gateway Providers


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333Please use your real identity

by pgaz, Tuesday 11 of December, 2007 [14:46:22 UTC]
Gent Cav, you claim you've been using voip-info for many years, so why is your registration on this wiki only minutes before your post? You're either being dishonest or trying to hide your real identity. If you have a legitimate complaint about others here, I would hope you would be open enough to use your real identity. Its too easy for competitors to post these types of comments under the pretext of looking out for the good of the wiki. Vendors can publish product information on this wiki and its encouraged in the guidelines. What you consider spam may very well be useful information to others and for you to try to either censor or block that information from others is against the spirit of this wiki.
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333Too much advertising/abuse of this wiki

by gentc, Friday 07 of December, 2007 [13:15:04 UTC]
I have been using voip-info.org for many years now. While I was searching for "Voice Broadcasting" this time, I have bombarded with results which were just advertising for a company called DSC and became really annoying. Too bad they are allowed to abuse such a good information source website. They might have a good product but their guerrilla tactics pushes me away from this company. For those who want to eliminate them from your search result, use minus sign in front of the name you want eliminated from the searches. Below is what I did while I was searching:

Voice Broadcasting -DSC

For the admin of this wiki: Please limit the number of external links for the same company. I don't mind seeing paying banner ads which motivates you to bring us users better website but not the way people are abusing the board and cheating on you.
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by pgaz, Thursday 06 of December, 2007 [16:52:48 UTC]
Linkx, perhaps you and your cohort Spamblock need to get on the same page. Back in August, during an edit conflict with Spamblock on another generic article, he stated "I don't care what goes below "See Also" and the compromise reached with him was that there would be no commercial links ABOVE the See Also and that mine would be moved below. There were multiple categories and links and that was OK then. That "undocumented guideline" is what I've been following ever since, moving mine (and other) links to below the See Also in categories exactly like that article. Now you come along with your NEW arbitrary rules that limit links to some arbitrary number, with absolutely no regard to the articles being referenced or content. That's why there NEEDS to be a written guideline.
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by linkx, Thursday 06 of December, 2007 [16:44:33 UTC]
ALL external links should be removed? Why? That wouldn't make sense. Flooding a page with individual links to each DSC service related to the page subject doesn't make sense either.

It's voip-INFO.ORG, not voip-ADS.COM!!
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by pgaz, Thursday 06 of December, 2007 [14:48:02 UTC]
Once again, if admin (James) comments here on the appropriateness of these edits, I will follow his advice. Your edits are not only inconsistent with other articles, but defeat the theme of this wiki which is providing information to users. Just because you don't see the value is no reason for your arbitrary deletions. The rules and guidelines do not support your edits, otherwise ALL external links would be removed.
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by linkx, Thursday 06 of December, 2007 [14:40:16 UTC]
You keep adding links to commercial info of DSC. The articles changed, not the rules. . . .
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by pgaz, Thursday 06 of December, 2007 [11:21:18 UTC]
Linkx, I really don't want to continue arguing this issue, but I'm frustrated by the apparent changing rules here. This article was reorganized already months ago after some heated discussion. Now there appears to be new rules being applied. Simply removing blocks of code from an article with no consideration of the content and then applying arbitrary "common sense" arguments adds to this frustration. I agree and applaud the efforts you and others put forth to keep this wiki clean of spam. When I had a dispute with Bob Bacon, I contacted admin (James) who responded directly on the article where the dispute occurred. If he (James) feels my edits are inappropriate, I would hope to hear from him on this discussion and I'll abide by his decision. I would hope that any changes would reflect the content of each individual reference, rather than saying there is some arbitrary maximum count or limit to how much one posts.
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by pgaz, Thursday 06 of December, 2007 [09:13:46 UTC]
I'd rather hear it from James (admin). We have written in the past and he has my email. Considering that I wrote the original article, that the information or references were pulled from the article and placed in the See Also some time back to keep the article free of commercial links, that each link is to a separate and distinct application or point of information, does NOT suggest that your 'new' guideline is common sense. You are even violating that rule when you edited the article "T1" tonight. That's the problem I have with you and others who make up your own rules that are applied inconsistently. I also disagree with anyone who hides behind an anonymous ID(s) without declaring project or company affiliation. Its too easy to "protect" your own articles while applying your own "common sense" rules to others without community control. There needs to be clear guidelines, not YOUR common sense.
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by linkx, Thursday 06 of December, 2007 [05:52:49 UTC]
No 'new' guidelines. Just common sense after the list grew larger. You already scattered DSC information all over voip-info and James (the admin) agreed that this was bending the rules.

You must agree that one line per commercial supplier should be sufficient. My issue with your 11 lines of references to your Voice Broadcasting applications is that this could set a precident for other to add theirs in the same amount. What a nice layout this will be . . . . .

Please don't start about spending too much time in promoting your company. You have no idea of the time that we (adblock, mkzz, Matt, Michael and you on several occasions) spent in trying to maintain an informational wiki without personal or commercial interest.


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by pgaz, Wednesday 05 of December, 2007 [21:16:04 UTC]
So where does the guideline state that there is a limit to such links, especially if each link is to a specific function such as voice broadcast simulation, applications, specific uses of voice broadcast such as senior calling, latchkey children, etc, etc, etc. I have spent too much time on this wiki making articles conform to the "See Also" rule that appeared to be an acceptable alternative to having external links built into generic articles and that was working until NOW having to adapt to YOUR new guideline. This should be left to admin for a final decision and a written guideline to stop this non-sensical and time wasting process of reverting each other's edits. Would you agree to that and submit this to admin?