Last month, a colleague was explaining he was not looking forward to an afternoon of long-distance conference calls. Having recently started using Slack for collaboration with their remote team, they lamented… I wish I could do my conference calls using Slack! …which got us thinking. Recent experiments with IBM Watson Speech To Text and Twilio on IBM Bluemix had shown how easy it was to create telephony applications. Slack publishes multiple APIs to help developers build custom “bots”...