Generating a phone call from Rev

[Kay C Lan]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have only had a quick look at Skype, but can you program it to speak
> or read a file down the phone?


Oopps. I thought that this was as simple as using Audio MIDI Setup to feed
the speaker output into the mic input, but unfortunately you do need a MIDI
mixer in the middle which is probably impractical :-(

The software option is to use WireTap Anywhere:

http://atmac.org/voip-phone-calls-for-aac-users/

but unless you already own this it is probably cheaper to go with your
Phlink option.

If you want to go the whole hog and set up a VoIP server such as Asterik,
there are Add Ons that handle Text-to-Speech:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+swift

Probably all too complex when compared to some of these services:

http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/ueContent.jsp?scTopic=txt2landline

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/081308-landlines.html?fsrc=rss-wireless

And because Sarah, you're in Oz, you can use smsPup:

http://smspup.com/smsServices.php?serviceIdentity=textToSpeech

Which only leaves sending SMS from Rev, which again can be done with
AppleScript:

http://www.smsmac.com/help/discover/applescript/

So back to Richard's original problem, if the 'client' isn't at his computer
then he probably isn't at his phone (which is next to the computer) either.
If he has a mobile phone then using AppleScript to SMS is probably a cheaper
option and provides the added benefit of a 'hard copy'. I can't imagine
anything worse than trying to scramble for pen and paper whilst receiving a
voice message saying, "We have recived your order for part No: AXZS-564332,
part No AXXD-02594023,...";-( Having an SMS that I can cross-check when I
get back to my computer seems like a nice alternative.

HTH