As subject says I am reading api docs for twilio but even after brainstorming for 2 hours I am still unable to figure out exactly how can I receive a call from twilio on my web application and answer the call with my own voice like we do in a real phone.
I know how to respond a call when someone call your twilio number but that's only text to speech conversion like their "Hello Monkey" example application but nothing so far about answering a call using their API.
Can anyone please explain how can we do that? Not everything, just main concept and few references if possible
I am using Laravel so would be good if it's in php
Twilio evangelist here.
I would suggest working through the Twilio Client for JavaScript Quickstart. This will walk you through both the server and client side code needed to build a phone in your browser, showing you how to both make outbound calls from the browser to a PSTN phone as well as receive incoming PSTN calls in the browser.
The magic that you are looking for in either of those cases is the <Dial> verb. When an incoming PSTN call comes into Twilio, you can use the Dial verb to tell Twilio to dial and bridge that call with a Client instance:
<Dial>
<Client>jenny</Client>
</Dial>
When and instance of client make an outbound call and wants to connect to a PSTN phone number you again us the Dial verb:
<Dial>
<Number>+15555555555</Number>
</Dial>
The quickstart shows in more detail how this works.
Hope that helps.
You tried the Twilio PHP lib? As for Laravel... Incoming call? No problem!
Please try to use Google before asking questions! I think one important trait to any programmer is the ability to organize the idea of "what you want", and then google each step to get it that you want...