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How to Assign a Twilio Phone Number to a Voice Application

Objective

When an incoming call is made to your Twilio number, Twilio will make an HTTP request to your Voice Application. Your application will then be expected to respond with appropriate TwiML for handling the call.

Product

Programmable Voice

Environment

legacy Twilio Console

Procedure

For Twilio to know where to find your application, you will need to configure your phone number, in either Twilio Console or via the REST API. For full instructions, please see our article Configure a Twilio Phone Number to Receive and Respond to Voice Calls.

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