Actually, you can get outlook to spit the stuff out pretty easy with MAPI. Well at least that is how we had Persona doing it back in 1997-98.
Is MAPI still available for Outlook Server? It might be called .net or something now, but it is pretty easy to get the messages and text, well easy if you are running on a windows machine. Have the reader process login to the outlook server as the user or a user's assistant. We had it reading and faxing emails to us if they were too long to read. Just put a fax card in the outlook server. Eventually the project grew to become Orchestrate from Premier Technologies. Race "The Tyrant" Vanderdecken -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herman Webley Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:25 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk help via PSTN/VOIP On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 15:36 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > > You could sell this system to many helpdesks since the operators have no > idea what they are talking about and are just reading from a script anyways. > > It would be cool but why not develop a system that can read my emails from > outlook to me over the phone or something really useful. > > Just a thought. That would involve text to speech (rather than a bunch audio files) , and has probably been done before. Doing outlook itself might be hard, but doing POP3 should be pretty straighforward with dialplan, and (relatively) simple AGI. Best regards, Herman Webley _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
