Die Balance zwischen Privatsphäre und Komfort kann schwierig sein. Heute zeige ich Ihnen, wie Sie mit Twilio Nachrichten und Anrufe weiterleiten, sodass Sie Ihren Kontakten eine alternative Telefonnummer aushändigen können, unter der Sie erreichbar sind, während Ihre echte Telefonnummer geheim bleibt.

Es gibt viele Gründe, warum Sie Ihre echte Telefonnummer vielleicht verbergen möchten:

• Transaktionen mit Fremden im Internet wie Kauf/Verkauf auf Ebay Kleinanzeigen
• Sie möchten Ihren Lieferanten und Kunden eine Nummer geben, unter der sie Sie erreichen können
• Angabe einer Telefonnummer auf Ihrer Visitenkarte

Voraussetzungen zum Erstellen einer Weiterleitungsnummer

• Ein Twilio-Konto (melden Sie sich für ein kostenloses Konto hier an).
• Eine Twilio-Telefonnummer mit SMS- und Sprachfunktionen
• Eine Telefonnummer, an die Sie Anrufe und Nachrichten weiterleiten möchten. Für den Rest dieses Beitrags sprechen wir der Einfachheit halber von Ihrer Handynummer. Es kann aber auch eine beliebige Nummer mit SMS- und Sprachfunktionen sein.
• Ein Freund mit einer SMS-fähigen Telefonnummer, der Ihnen beim …

Twilio offers a wide variety of channels you can use to connect with your customers, for example, through an SMS or Phone Call. One of the ways you can use these channels is to collect data from your customers. Depending on the type of data, this can be a complex undertaking. Collecting individual words or numbers is usually pretty straightforward. However, when asking customers to share specific Times and Dates, this can be far more complex. A typical use-case might be the scheduling of an appointment. This is especially true when allowing customers to communicate in free form (for example, “I would like an appointment next Tuesday at 3 pm”).

In this blog, I will show you how you can extract Times and Dates during a phone call using JavaScript and serverless Twilio Functions without the need for any 3rd party integrations.

Prerequisites

To build this solution, you will …

We’re excited to announce that you can now store your voice recordings in your own AWS S3 bucket.

By default, the media associated with a voice recording is stored within Twilio. Although this is convenient for many customers, there are customers who want their recordings to be stored on their systems for additional processing, storage, or compliance reasons.

To achieve this in the past, customers have had to set up a webhook to be notified when a recording is completed with the recordingStatusCallback, download the recording, save it into their storage and then delete it from Twilio. Starting today, it's now possible to specify an AWS S3 bucket where media must be stored without the need for additional software development and additional API requests to programmatically download and upload each recording independently.

The release of this feature represents Twilio’s commitment to serve their customers and help them meet their …

The Twilio helper library for ASP.NET (Twilio.AspNet) is a community-driven open-source project to make integrating Twilio with ASP.NET easier, for both ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET MVC on .NET Framework. The library helps you with very common use cases like:

• Responding to Twilio webhook requests with TwiML objects from the official Twilio SDK for C# and .NET.
• Binding data from Twilio webhook requests to strongly typed .NET objects.
• Validating webhook requests originate from Twilio and rejecting them if not.

As .NET and ASP.NET is evolving, the Twilio.AspNet contributors are enhancing the library to take advantage of the newest capabilities and best practices. So what's new?

What's old in Twilio.AspNet

Actually, before I share the shiny new additions, let me share what is already part of the library. After all, this is the first blog post to share news about the library.

Handle Twilio webhook requests with ASP.NET

In previous versions …

In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to implement live transcription of phone calls to text. The phone calls will be routed through a Twilio phone number, and we will use the Media Streams API to stream the incoming audio to a small WebSocket server built using Python. Once in your server, the audio stream will be passed to Vosk, a lightweight open-source speech recognition engine that runs locally on your computer, with support for many languages.

Requirements

To work on this tutorial, you will need:

• Python 3.6 or newer. If your operating system does not provide a Python interpreter, you can go to python.org to download an installer.
• A Twilio account. If you are new to Twilio, click here to create a free account now and receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account. You can review the features and limitations of …

Wenn du diesen Artikel liest, hast du vermutlich schon von all den aufregenden Szenarien gehört, die du mit einer Twilio-Nummer bauen kannst. Du kannst SMS versenden, Anrufe empfangen, interaktive Sprachantworten (Interactive Voice Response, IVR) entwerfen, und jedes erdenkliche Telekommunikationsszenario per Programmcode in deiner Lieblingssprache umsetzen. Und all das beginnt mit einer Twilio Telefonnummer.

Doch leider ist es manchmal gar nicht so einfach, eine solche Nummer zu bestellen. Uns Entwicklern ist es oft nicht bewusst, dass nationale Regularien bestimmen, wer, unter welchen Voraussetzungen, überhaupt eine Telefonnummer erwerben darf. Viele Gesetzgeber bevorzugen diesen Weg, um Missbrauch und Spam vorzubeugen. Dabei sind manche Gesetzgeber strenger, andere sind lockerer und ermöglichen einen einfacheren Zugang zu Rufnummern. In diesem Artikel werde ich auf die lokalen Besonderheiten in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz eingehen und auch einen Plan B vorstellen, falls dir die lokalen Besonderheiten, den Kauf einer bestimmten Telefonnummer nicht erlauben.

Welche Arten von Rufnummern …

Like most people these days, I don't answer my phone when I get a call from an unknown number. Unfortunately for me, phone calls are still an incredibly useful form of communication for many businesses. Fortunately for me, Twilio has useful products like Lookup to help determine whether an incoming call is from my dentist or if it's spam.

Anyone else google a number instead of answering the phone? 🙈

— Emily Knott (@em_knott) September 16, 2018

This blog post will show you how to quickly launch a call forwarding service that sends you an SMS with Caller ID details when available (Caller name information is sourced through CNAM and currently only available for phone numbers owned by carriers in the US.) The service will send an SMS like the one below right before it forwards the call.

Best of all, there's no code required! You will deploy your …

I'm sure all of us have made prank calls at some point in our lives or wanted to use phones to create a tricky puzzle.

With the help of Twilio and Java, you can surprise a friend with a mysterious phone call that plays your chosen sound file, without having to pick up your mobile device.

In this article, you'll write a couple of lines of Java code to make an outbound call that plays a chosen sound file to any phone number, right from the command line.

Tutorial requirements

• A free or paid Twilio account. If you are new to Twilio get your free account now! (If you sign up through this link, Twilio will give you $10 credit when you upgrade.)
• Some prior knowledge of Java or a willingness to learn.
• A smartphone with active service, to test the project

Configuration

Start off by creating a …