What technology should i choose for this kind of an application?

Question

One of my client has asked me an application Telephone answering machine which is exactly like customer care voice application (ie) he is maintaining a college, parents of students will call to a college phone no and they will be asked to enter student roll/reg no and they can hear that student attendence percentage,mark etc....

• Is it possible? If so, How can i pass a student detail to that voice recorded....

I dont what kind of technology can be used to make this application possible...

EDIT: I just found it IVRS\TAPI integration in asp.net... How to get started?

Answer 1

Tropo: https://www.tropo.com/home.jsp and Twilio: http://www.twilio.com/

Both offer services which will allow you to do things like this.

Personally, I'm partial to Tropo, but it depends what language you want to use.

Answer 2

What you are asking for can be handled by Asterisk applications.

Asterisk is software that turns an ordinary computer into a voice communications server. Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers and more.

For example, AsteriskNOW can be used as an IVR server:

AsteriskNOW installs a complete Linux distribution, Asterisk, the DAHDi driver framework, the FreePBX administrative GUI, the MySQL database, the Apache web server and a wide variety of development tools and components.

Among the many applications you can create with AsteriskNOW are:

• VoIP Gateway
• Skype Gateway
• IP PBX
• Call Center ACD
• Conference Bridge
• IVR Server
• Voicemail System
• Call Recorder
• Fax Server
• Speech Server

Answer 3

Try VBVoice! It's an easy to use drag-and-drop .NET IVR development toolkit that you can use to build the application you're describing. And you can give it a try for free here: http://bit.ly/94M5Uy

If you don't want to build the application yourself, we have a partner called Vocantas that has a similiar application called Scaller. Scaller was built using VBVoice for educational institutions to engage and inform students better. You can read all about Scaller here: http://www.vocantas.com/products-scaller.php

Disclaimer: I work for Pronexus.