Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:40:37 +0800 From: "Craig Beasland" <craig@hotmix.com.au> To: "'Adam Nealis'" <adam.nealis@credittrade.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How to get a computer to speak an alert down the phone? Message-ID: <B1471D5DCC74D4119444004005E23A2001CF73@CORONA> In-Reply-To: <B1471D5DCC74D4119444004005E23A200C7D58@CORONA>
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Adam, You may want to take a look at vgetty (in the ports). It was originally designed to act as an answering machine type app, but it can definitely "talk" down a modem line. Shouldn't be too hard to adjust. The only problem we had was that it talked far too quietly for us and I could never get it louder. cheers craig -----Original Message----- From: adam@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:adam@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Adam Nealis Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2001 03:15 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to get a computer to speak an alert down the phone? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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