What's New in 4.1

BlazeCast 4.1 adds more flexibility to initiate notifications

• CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) Support - BlazeCast now supports taking in XML messages in CAP format, as specified by OASIS CAP 1.1. This enables BlazeCast to automatically disseminate messages from organizations that also use the CAP standard, such as various government agencies like the National Weather Alert service and 3rd-party systems.
• Dial-in Notification - This feature allows a user to launch a pre-configured broadcast of any type, by calling into the BlazeCast telephone user interface (TUI) by phone, including mobile phones. This feature allows security personnel to quickly alert and conference in his team from the site of an incident without having to log into a web interface, or for example, in a retail store, a sales rep can notify other reps for assistance from the point of sale.

What's New in 4.0

Check out what you can do in BlazeCast 4.0

• Text-to-speech engine
• Personalized campaigns (e.g. absentee notification)
• LDAP authentication
• Remote configuration of IP speakers

Text-to-Speech

This feature allows users to directly translate a text message into an audio message for phones and paging, rather than having to record a voice message. Benbria's text-to-speech engine produces voices that sound natural with inflection, not wooden and robotic.

Personalized Campaigns

This feature allows users to send a personalized voice message to each recipient, with their name, date, and customizable information embedded. This is particularly useful in K12 schools, where BlazeCast can automate the process of calling parents to inform them their child is absent from school that day. Campaigns can be scheduled to be sent out at a particular time, and on a repeating schedule. Voice messages are translated from text using text-to-speech.

LDAP Authentication

This feature enables BlazeCast to authenticate users against an LDAP database. BlazeCast can be configured such that members of a specific LDAP group, e.g. Administrators, automatically have user access privileges on BlazeCast. Users belonging to this particular LDAP group can sign into BlazeCast’s web interface with their LDAP username and password credentials.