Send Laravel Notifications as a Phone Call

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November 15th, 2019

Send Laravel Notifications as a Phone Call

Nexmo Voice Channel is a package that adds a notification channel to Laravel using Nexmo’s voice API:

This package provides a notification channel for the Laravel framework that works with Nexmo’s voice API, allowing text-to-speech phone calls. It also provides a fluent interface to construct your message content.

To use this notification channel, you route a notification through VoiceChannel and provide a toVoice() method. The readme documents an example so you can get a visual of using this package:

use Roomies\NexmoVoiceChannel\Markup\Message;
use Roomies\NexmoVoiceChannel\Markup\SayAs;
use Roomies\NexmoVoiceChannel\Markup\Sentence;
use Roomies\NexmoVoiceChannel\NexmoVoiceChannel;
 
/**
* Get the notification's delivery channels.
*
* @param mixed $notifiable
* @return array
*/
public function via($notifiable)
{
return [NexmoVoiceChannel::class];
}
 
/**
* Get the voice representation of the notification.
*
* @param mixed $notifiable
* @return \Roomies\NexmoVoiceChannel\Markup\Message
*/
public function toVoice($notifiable)
{
return new Message([
new Sentence('Hi, thanks for joining Roomies.'),
new Sentence([
'Your verification code is',
new SayAs('ABC123')->interpretAs('spell-out')
]),
]);
}

Here’s another example demonstrating the package’s markup types you can use to create a notification:

new Sentence([
'Hey!',
(new Pause)->time('1s'),
(new Prosody('Wake up!'))->volume('loud'),
(new Substitution(
(new SayAs('US'))->interpretAs('spell-out'),
))->alias('United States'),
])

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at roomies-com/nexmo-voice-channel.

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Paul Redmond

Full stack web developer. Author of Lumen Programming Guide and Docker for PHP Developers.