Voice services program
Offer your voice services and content to more than 55 million Skype users worldwide, with the Skype voice services program.
How does it work?
You bring us the content and we bring you the users. Skype promotes your service, and if you want, can charge callers per minute:
- Free services: these are free for the Skype caller. You pay a small per minute fee for the operation and promotion of these services.
- Chargeable services: callers pay per minute from their Skype Credit. You receive a share of the call revenue.
What kind of voice services can you offer?
Anything you can imagine! If you want to start a news service, voice auctioning, announce sports scores, track international deliveries, or if you want to help people learn how to speak Tagalog – do it! We look forward to seeing your ideas in action, amaze us!
How much can you earn from chargeable services?
You define the per minute charge for your service. The call revenue generated is split three ways:
- Skype keeps 30% for promoting your service and connecting callers.
- Your chosen Platform Partner keeps a share for enabling your service (see table below).
- You receive the remainder.
What is the opportunity?
- Promotion to large and growing user base – Skype currently has over 50 million registered users, which is growing by 150,000 new users every day.
- Global footprint – Skype is not limited by geographic boundaries. We enable our content providers to access a global base of customers in over 200 countries.
- Low cost of entry – You can start creating voice services today, with no set up cost.
How do you join and create services?
- Select the Platform Partner that best suits your needs
- Review the partner’s submission procedure and participation requirements
- Create your voice service on the partner’s development platform
- Submit your service and support materials to your Platform Partner
- Wait to hear whether your voice service has been accepted
- Skype makes your service live and promotes it in the directory
Skype’s platform partners
Skype has partnered with Tellme Networks, Voxpilot, Voxeo and Angel to enable content providers to create innovative new voice services. These Platform Partners enable the voice services, provide development resources and manage the submission process for new services. Each of the partners is described below, for you to select the one that best suits your needs:
| Tellme | Voxeo |
|---|---|
No free services initially |
Free services fee: |
You receive 40% for chargeable services |
You receive 40% for chargeable services |
English |
English |
| Join Tellme’s developer community |
Join Voxeo’s developer community |
| Voxpilot | Angel |
|---|---|
No free services initially |
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You receive 40% for chargeable services |
You receive 41% for chargeable services |
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| Join Voxbuilder’s developer community |
Join Angel’s developer community |
By participating in Skype’s Voice Services Program, and creating one or more voice services to be enabled by one of our partners above, you agree to be bound by, and subject to, the terms, conditions and provisions of Skype’s Content Provider’s Terms of Service and Use Agreement.
More questions
If you have more questions, please see the Skype voice services program FAQs
Notice regarding your privacy
The Skype Voice Services Program is a service provided through our Platform Partners. Information you provide to obtain services provided by Skype's Voice Services Program is not subject to Skype's Privacy Statement. Please read the privacy policy of the Platform Partner with which you choose to work with for more information.