Business Productivity

Tag: PSTN

How to build a smart interactive voice response (IVR) call routing system

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 […]

Amazon Chime SDK live connector for live streaming

Amazon Chime SDK launches live connector for streaming

A new Amazon Chime SDK feature, Live Connector, allows builders to connect live streams directly from their apps and websites to streaming platforms, enabling videos to reach millions of viewers through WebRTC. The Amazon Chime SDK is a set of APIs that removes the heavy lifting associated with designing and maintaining a back end media […]

High-level design of scalable file-based noise reduction solution.

Build a scalable file-based noise reduction solution with Amazon Voice Focus AMI

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 […]

Build presence and typing indicators with Amazon Chime SDK messaging

Amazon Chime SDK is a set of real-time communications components that developers can use to quickly add messaging, audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities to their applications. Amazon Chime SDK messaging helps enable developers to connect communities of users with secure, scalable, and persistent messaging. Using the existing APIs and capabilities of Amazon Chime SDK […]

Amazon Web Services and Convene team up to enhance virtual and hybrid meetings and events

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 […]

Voice Focus Overview

Background noise suppression on the PSTN using the Amazon Chime SDK

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 […]

Load testing applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK

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 […]

Call Forwarding Overview

Building a PSTN call forwarding solution with the Amazon Chime SDK

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. […]

Using Amazon Voice Focus AMI to reduce noise in audio

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 […]

Server-Side Logging and Monitoring of Amazon Chime SDK Events

When you start running Amazon Chime SDK implemented service in production, you want to make sure you are logging and monitoring usage of Chime SDK. This might be finding the duration of the meetings, or tracking attendee’s meeting activity, or simply checking the number of meetings being held to identify any abnormality. There are different […]