After we receive the text, we will just pass it to our bot and our bot will behave in the same way as it does for text input. Once we get the audio stream of the caller, we will use Bing Speech API for Speech-to-Text conversion. Nonetheless, I decided to write down this blog because it provides a nice insight into Skype Calling Bot and also how to intercept the responses from Bot by implementing IBotToUser interface.įor this fun project, we will use the Bot Builder Calling SDK which is now part of Bot Framework, to make a call to our bot. I will address this design issue and also explain how we can make it scalable. It is not a very cleanly written sample and there is a design flaw due to which the bot cannot be scaled out. I developed this sample over weekend just to find out whether it could be done or not. Source code is available over my github repo. Great idea to past time, after some initial trouble, I did manage to get it done(not neatly though). So the basic idea is that the bot should follow the same flow irrespective whether the user texts or calls. So I thought why not integrate it with Bot Builder SDK, so that same bot can text and answer call at same time.

Skype bot calling feature does exist(preview) but the samples which are available are only for simple IVR bot. So over this past weekend, I was dead bored when I got this idea of calling a bot from Skype.

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