On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:06:01AM -0600, Tom Warfield wrote:
> Okay this is a interesting Idea I have but I don't know if it is even
> possible or has even been implemented into Mon. This is more of a open
> discussion then anything.
>
> Here is the scenario. Something has triggered a alert in MON we will
> say for our example one of the routers has gone down. So MON calls
> another program and that program calls someone's telephone and speaks to
> the person with a message stating that such and such alert has happened
> basically stating whatever is typed into the alert message. Kind of
> like qpage can do combined with MON, but I want it to call and tell
> someone this in Voice, not a text message.
>
> So is this possible? Or to far out in left field yet..
>
I made a setup last year which did exactly that:
mon calls an alert script voice.alert with a phone number.
The script uses a free text 2 speech tool to generate a wav file.
With Linux and ISDN you can make a call and play this wav file.
Everything worked, but the quality of the text 2 speech tool was soo bad,
we decided to use SMS messages instead.
I found another tool (IIRC from university of Edinburg), which had a
very good quality, but the output went directly to /dev/dsp and
i didn't have enough time to make it scriptable.
Ciao
Dietmar
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