Aculab Cloud provides APIs for businesses building applications for voice and video calls, messaging, and inbound or outbound fax. It supports calls to telephone numbers and SIP addresses, and WebRTC can embed live calling in a web page. Listed capabilities include voice applications, live speaker detection, speech recognition, translation, text-to-speech, voice biometrics, SMS, MMS, and fax. Speech recognition uses Google Speech-to-Text; text-to-speech supports Amazon Polly and Cepstral engines. Developers can use the REST API with Python, C#, VB, Java, PHP, or other scripting languages. REST applications run on a web server the customer hosts; UAS applications run in a User Application Server installed on the customer’s platform. The service runs on AWS, uses HTTPS for web services and SSL by default for UAS connections, and lets customers encrypt media files with runtime-supplied keys. Accounts are assigned to Europe, USA-East, or USA-West (beta). A free Trial includes $10 credit for one month, five inbound and five outbound services, and calls up to 23c per minute to a validated number. New accounts start with a one-outbound-service-per-second limit.
Who it is for
Aculab Cloud suits businesses building communications applications through APIs without specialist telephony equipment. It may fit developers who can host REST applications or install a User Application Server on their own platform.
What is good
- Supports calls to telephone numbers and SIP addresses.
- WebRTC can embed live calling in a web page.
- APIs support several programming languages.
- Trial includes $10 in credit for one month.
- Free developer support includes documentation and email support.
What to know first
- New accounts start at one outbound service per second.
- Outbound calls to premium-rate numbers are unsupported.
- Trial calls to validated numbers can cost up to 23c per minute.
- REST applications require a web server you host.
Verdict
Aculab Cloud offers a wide set of communications APIs, with separate REST and UAS hosting approaches. Review the trial allowance and outbound limits, especially if your application depends on high call volume or premium-rate destinations.
Aculab Cloud plans and pricing
All plansCompared on AI voice biometrics software
- Free plan
- No
- Voice authentication
- Yes
- Voice fraud detection
- Yes
- Deployment
- cloud
- SDK platforms
- Java, Python, PHP, .NET
- API access
- Yes
