From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 11:13:51 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 11:13:49 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prozac.vas-net.net (prozac.vas-net.net [194.165.206.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5014F37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:13:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 98920 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2001 18:55:02 -0000 Received: from demo9.credittrade.com (HELO galileo.mutant-tech.com) (@212.82.88.2) by prozac.vas-net.net with SMTP; 3 Jan 2001 18:55:02 -0000 Received: from credittrade.com (beast.mutant-tech.com [10.10.1.70]) by galileo.mutant-tech.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id CG1X6JZ4; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:16:07 -0000 Sender: adam@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A537A31.60576768@credittrade.com> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 19:14:57 +0000 From: Adam Nealis Organization: CreditTrade Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to get a computer to speak an alert down the phone? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, As part of an alerts system I have a sort of e-mail to SMS gateway thing set up. Only problem is that the recipient of an SMS might be asleep. Due to the fact that most mobile phones don't ring for long enough to wake one up on receipt of an SMS, it occurred to me that it would be better if the computer dialled the voice number and then spoke the alert down the phone. Having given this some thought, for me the tricky bit is getting the computer to send audio data down the phone. Does anyone have any recommendations for h/w, or otherwise, to use to achieve this? I presume I need some sort of sound card come voice modem contraption, or is it easy to use a sund blaster and an ordinary modem, etc...? Thanks, Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message