Vonage has announced new AI-powered SIP capabilities to enhance voice engagement and connectivity.
Vonage has unveiled its latest innovation for SIP Trunking customers: intelligent SIP capabilities. This launch enables enterprises to effortlessly deploy elastic SIP trunks on a global scale and tap into advanced, AI-driven voice engagement solutions. These solutions are accessible through both pre-built code and versatile low-code/no-code applications, offering a seamless and powerful enhancement to business comms strategies.
Vonage outlines that 92 percent of consumers use at least one voice channel to connect with their favourite brands. The company suggests this includes traditional phone calls, calls via messaging apps, automated voice assistants, and voice calls within apps or web pages. Businesses can leverage AI to enhance these voice experiences, providing more personalised and deeper customer engagement.
More Specifics On Vonage’s New SIP Functionalities
Vonage’s intelligent SIP capabilities, integrated directly into the dashboard experience, aim to offer users a seamless and efficient way to enhance their communication workflows. The easy deployment of elastic SIP trunks is now more user-friendly, requiring no expert or onsite developer expertise. The modern SIP dashboard UI features a straightforward setup with extensive geographical coverage, advanced number management, and robust security features like digest authentication, ACL, and encryption for signalling and media.
Additionally, Vonage is introducing AI Studio, a low-code/no-code conversational AI platform that enables the creation of virtual agents powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Gen AI. These agents facilitate smart self-service and voice alerts, among other features, helping businesses effectively manage and reduce live agent call volumes.
AI Studio provides a suite of software solutions that enhance customer interactions through automated voice and text. It offers developers new ways to design voice or messaging interfaces for various customer engagement needs.
Meanwhile, the Vonage Code Hub serves as a repository of pre-built solutions for common communication workflows. This includes voice and messaging notifications, speech-enabled IVRs, and digital media stream connections to third-party AI platforms.
The SIP dashboard grants easy access to Code Hub’s intelligent SIP applications, which support call recording, transcription, and sentiment analysis, extending voice connectivity to vital AI-powered customer support tools. With Vonage’s hosted API applications, businesses can also reduce development time and infrastructure costs, making it an invaluable asset for any enterprise looking to upgrade its communication systems.
Lastly, Vonage’s Voice API helps businesses interact with customers through AI-powered, programmable voice interactions. It supports traditional coding and leverages automatic speech recognition in over 120 languages, premium text-to-speech, and Websockets digital media streams for third-party virtual agents.
This API empowers developers to create personalised and immediate voice engagement experiences, extending a business’s brand from initial contact to ongoing customer engagement through voice.
What Else Has Vonage Been Up To In 2024?
In February, Vonage announced several momentous API partnerships to foster innovation.
For example, Vonage and AWS partnered to develop communications and networking APIs. The partnership’s basis was to integrate Vonage’s communication and network APIs with Ericsson’s advanced 5G network and the broad range of AWS services. The collaboration aimed to make innovative solutions more readily available to millions of developers in the AWS community via the AWS Marketplace.
Earlier this year, Vonage and Verizon partnered to deliver advanced 5G APIs to developers. The two companies announced a memorandum of understanding to introduce Verizon network APIs to Vonage’s platform, enabling developers to access network services and capabilities.
Their collaboration also involved jointly developing new APIs, aiming to foster an ecosystem of network APIs. These APIs will help developers create applications that emphasise security, reliability, and innovation.