Tag: Programmable Voice

Many businesses operate Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems that allow callers to use their telephones to interact with various business systems. IVRs work by providing prompts to callers and allowing them to respond using their own voice or via dual-tone multi frequency (DTMF) input on their phones. IVRs are commonly used in automated, self-service use […]

Overview This post provides steps to deploy a complete telehealth experience powered by the Amazon Chime SDK, including audio, video, chat messaging, and appointment reminders sent via SMS. The backend is fully serverless and fully customizable. The frontend is a widget that allows you to embed the experience in any webpage with a single embeddable […]

In November 2021, Amazon Chime SDK team launched Amazon Voice Focus AMI for customers to help reduce background noise and improve the quality of their audio content. Amazon Voice Focus is an award-winning, deep-learning noise suppression algorithm used in Amazon Chime SDK meetings. It is now packaged as an Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Machine Image (AMI). The Amazon […]

This is a guest blog written by Caroline England, Head of Product at Convene. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. Convene is a leading provider of premium virtual and hybrid events with a network of […]

Many people have experienced frustrating background noise on a meeting or phone call. Whether it’s talking to someone who is driving, a customer support agent in a large noisy office, or food being delivered by a courier on a windy night. It can be distracting and unproductive at best. We are excited to announce Amazon […]

Builders creating audio-video communication applications can find it challenging to load test using a large number of attendees because of the challenges with inviting large number of unique individuals to join a meeting. To overcome this issue, we have built a solution to let the builders test their application with a large number of attendees […]

The Amazon Chime SDK Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Audio makes it easier for developers to build customized telephony applications using the agility and operational simplicity of a serverless AWS Lambda function. The CallAndBridge action enables developers to take an incoming call from one phone number and forward/bridge the caller to a new outbound call. […]

Amazon Chime SDK team has launched Amazon Voice Focus AMI for customers to help reduce noise and improve the quality of their audio content. Amazon Voice Focus is an award-winning, deep-learning noise suppression algorithm used in Amazon Chime SDK meetings. It is now packaged as an Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Machine Image (AMI). The Amazon […]

In November 2020, we launched the SIP media applications (SMA) feature in the US and certain other countries to make it easier for builders to enable Amazon Chime SDK meeting attendees to join via a landline or mobile phone. With SMA, builders can add phone numbers and customized voice menus to Amazon Chime SDK meetings […]

The Amazon Chime SDK Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Audio service makes it easy for developers to build customized telephony applications using the agility and operational simplicity of a serverless AWS Lambda functions. You can use the PSTN Audio service to build conversational self-service applications to reduce call resolution times and automate informational responses. In […]