So happy to have this out for general use. I work at Twilio, and use the OpenVBX app to manage all my voicemail for business. It's cool now, but is going to be so much more awesome with contributions from the community. I'm very interested in talking about how to expand the plugin architecture for the web app to work for mobile as well. If anyone else wants to chat about working on this drop me a note a [email protected]
I blogged awhile back about porting your mobile, land line, or Google Voice number into Twilio for free and hang onto it for just $1/month. You can also make it so your landline numbers can send/receive SMS once they're ported
There is no fee to port a number with Twilio, and once you port it in it is $1/month to hold onto the number. To port, you log into your Twilio account and visit the phone numbers tab and select "port number", or hit this URL
https://www.twilio.com/user/account/phone-numbers/porting
At this point, you fill out a form asking for the billing information and then we follow up with you to get authorization to transfer the number (usually just a signature). It usually takes about 10 business days to complete the port.
I work at Twilio on Twilio Fund, and want to make sure everyone knows we're still accepting submissions through the end of the year at Twiliofund.com. If you were one of the companies that submitted and was not announced today, you are still under consideration.
What I hate is that if you walk too far away, while waiting in a mall or something like that, the little vibrating coasters just don't work. SMS works even if you wander off
I don't know how saying "Danielle Morrill said" is not a quote. But let the audience here, and the future, judge whether or not we "keep up". I think time will tell.
Hey Hector, thanks for this feedback I'll check with the team on the status of Puerto Rico phone numbers. Regarding TTS, you might want to take a closer look at the Twilio <Say> verb, we actually support Spanish TTS... you just have to specify the language and you'll get the right accent, like this:
<Response>
<Say language="es">Es un robot que hablan español!</Say>
</Response>
Thanks, there are different challenges with international routing by country and by receiving carrier. I'll definitely pass this information along, and if you have specific calls (I'd need your Twilio account ID to look at them, better sent via email) that will help a lot, too. We know international support is important to developers everywhere, and we're definitely working on it.
hey curious to know what you mean about "Chinese service sucking" since we're not international yet... are you referring to outbound calls to Chinese numbers, or something else?
Hey Alex, not sure if you've logged into your Twilio account lately, but we reduced prices a couple months back so inbound calls are now $0.01/min, SMS is $0.02/msg, and phone numbers are $1/domestic or $2/toll free. We've yet to see someone actually blow through the whole $30 in trial credit, but if you run out and need more just let us know at [email protected]
Also not sure if you've seen this, but you can pick from English, French, German, and Spanish accents here: http://www.twilio.com/say
Looks like this is a bit of email usability fail on our part. When you first sign up for Twilio, you receive an email with the subject line "Welcome to Twilio... Learn to Build Your First Phone App in Less than 5 Minutes" and then 7 days later we send you an email introducing our CEO that says "RE: Welcome to Twilio..." in the subject line. The goal was that these would get threaded together, but they don't since the from is "Twilio" in the first and we use real names in the other emails (the one from Jeff says his name, the one from me says my name, etc.)
Sorry about that, it's an easy fix to remove the RE: