Hello World

This example will assume that you have created a CallFire account and have logged in to the administrative section. If you haven't created an account please click here: https://www.callfire.com/dialer/signup.do

My Campaigns Page

From the 'My Campaigns' page click on the 'Campaigns' link in the top left and corner and then click the 'Create New Campaign' button.

New Campaign Page

On the New Campaigns page, click on the green button to the right of the 'Hosted IVR' option.

CallFire XML Development GUI

This will bring up the CallFire XML development GUI. Several tags are defined across the top and can be drag and dropped in the work area in the middle of the page.

Drag the Play tag to the work area this will bring up a configuration box which prompts you to choose a play option. Click the 'Text to Speech' radio button', choose a voice and enter 'Hello World!' in the Text to Speech box.

Next click on the 'Test your IVR' menu option, enter in your phone number and press 'Ok'.

XML Text Editor

Towards the bottom left of your browser, you will see a button which gives you the option to choose 'XML'. Click on the XML Link.

The XML Editor should be showing you a text editable XML version of the dialplan which was created by the GUI.

Evaluating the syntax we see that a 'Play' tag is defined with a name, type and text to speech engine.

<dialplan name="Root">

    <play name="play" type="tts"  voice="male1">Hello World</play>

</dialplan>

A parent 'dialplan' tag defines the start and end of the full Dialplan. Feel free to manipulate the voices and text played back. Send yourself more calls using the 'Test your IVR' button on the IVR Designer page.

A more detailed discussion of the play tag can be found here play tag.