Web Integration with Voicent Programs

Question:

I am a volunteer for a Little League and am trying to put together a game reminder application (on a volunteer basis). I would like to know how to use the Broadcast By Phone application. I have built a web application that handles registration and would like to add this to the functionality.

How can I send a simple HTTP post to the application to fire off the app to convert a line of text to speach, call a number and leave a message. It looks like the application can handle this, but since I am a novice programmer (and Dentist) I need help with the construction of this Post. Can you show me how to do this?

Answer:

1). To launch the BroadcastByPhone autodialer program, you can use command line. That means the program and your web server has to be on a same machine. Please see BroadcastByPhone auto dialer command line interface

2). If the program and web server are on different machines, you cannot invoke BroadcastByPhone directly through command line. But you should able to make outbound phone calls through HTTP interface, since Voicent Gateway contains a builtin web server.

You should be able to do what you want through Voicent Gateway Simple Call Interface

You do not even need to compose a HTTP request. You just need to call one of the functions listed.