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The CallFire team will be manning booth # 319 at IT Expo West next Tuesday Sept 1 - Thursday Sept 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Come by, talk to us, learn about our products, and get to know the team.  We will also have give-aways, so come by and see what we have!

CallFire API developers get exclusive access to Voice XML with answering machine detection. This powerful new feature allows you to specify completely different execution paths for either when a live person answers or an answering machines picks up.

As our API customers know, Voice XML is our way of giving you full control of the call. The moment the phone’s picked up, your Voice XML script is executed. This new feature now allows you to specify two separate scripts. One to be executed in case of a live answer, and another in case of an answering machine. This ensures that applications like weather notifications, mass volunteer mobilizations can ensure full coverage regardless of a human or machine answer. The no-frills technical details are available here.

As always, if you have any questions do let our developers know at techsupport (at) callfire.com. It gets lonely at our Skunkworks lab, and they’d love to hear from you.

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Say that 5 times fast!   A lot goes into a well made Voice Mashup.  Not only do Voice Mashup API apps have to find a target audience, but in order to gain popularity it is essential that they generate plenty of location-specific content.  One of CallFire’s earliest clients, GeoGraffiti.com has done a pretty good job at that.  

GeoGraffiti’s Voice Map has grown from a 3-user proof-of-concept, to over 10,000 users on iPhone, Android & GeoGraffiti.com, all in less than 1 year.

The CallFire team is happy to help enable GeoGraffiti’s success by providing Voice Mashup APIs that scale, and a hosted IVR platform that handles recording, inbound IVR, and other Voice API features that drive GeoGraffiti’s Phone Mashup.

Check out some of our favorite Voice Mashups:
GeoGraffiti.com – this site seems to have the most traction & users.
Woices.com – An interesting voice map with a cool UI.
SayNow.com – SMS/Voice Mashup for Celebs.

Voice Mashup links:
PC World on Voice Mashups.
Saunderslog.com’s Voice Mashup Concast.
Thomas Howe’s take on Voice Mashups.