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Just a suggestion, but try searching for 'predictive dialer', along with favored modifiers like 'open source' or 'linux'. My uncle used to work with and sell predictive dialers, basically its the software used by telemarketers to make sure their callers are on the phone as close to 100% of the time as possible. The software is also capable of hanging up if no live operator is available to take the call, as well as filter busy signals, etc. Anyway, if there are any open source packages that do what you need, predictive dialing software might at least point you in the right direction. On Dec 30, 2003, at 11:45 AM, John Chambers wrote: > The folks I'm working for have just come up with a request > that seems to be difficult to find any real info about. > What they want to do is have their linux boxes (mostly RH, > various releases) initiate phone calls, and send voice > messages. One example is: > > <RING> Hello, Mr. ___. Your surgery is scheduled for this > Tuesday at 10:45 am. If this is a good time for you, press > 1; if you'd like to reschedule press 2. > > The people involved would really like a completely open > source package to do this, because they have some fairly > serious security issues (Can you say "HIPPA"?;-) and they > need good control over exactly what the software does. Any > proprietary code would be a last resort. > > I've found a cool voice-generating project at sourceforge, > freetts, and generating the voice from the usual text looks > like it's solved. (Would you like that in an English or an > Irish accent? Or maybe kevin16 the computer voice?) But how > to get the sound to come out of a remote telephone is so > far an unsolved problem, as is recognizing when the person > at the other end presses a button. > > The only way I've found so far to have the computer send > voice rather than data is to go through some commercial > services. We all know that it's possible for computers to > make phone calls (;-), but the code for doing this seems to > be hidden behind thick layers of secrecy. Or maybe I just > haven't guessed the right terms to type to google. > > Anyone know anything about this? > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Bush/Cheney '04: The last vote you'll ever have to cast.
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