Re: Text to voice

2011-03-17 Thread Larry Lyons
You may want to check out this blog posting by Ben Nadel. He discusses playing an MP3 over the phone with Coldfusion and a service called Twilio. That setup may work for you. http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2148-Playing-An-MP3-Over-The-Phone-With-ColdFusion-And-Twilio.htm hth, larry We are

RE: Text to voice

2011-03-14 Thread Stephens, Larry V
Excellent point. It is. I've been talking with the chief and we'll do a mock-up with them first thing. -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:h...@ilsweb.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 5:16 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Text to voice On 3/11/2011 2:06 PM, Judah McAuley wrote

Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Stephens, Larry V
We are working on an application that requires us to make a telephone call. It is an electronic allegory for a dead man's switch. We have a location with night watchmen who work alone. Worrying about them, since they work alone, we are developing a small application that will have the watchman

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Phillip Vector
This MAY be of help.. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/introduction-to-text-to-speech-in.html On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Stephens, Larry V steph...@indiana.edu wrote: We are working on an application that requires us to make a telephone call. It is an electronic

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Phillip Vector
Though.. Now that I think about it.. Have you considered having someone get a text message and they then call the police? That may be a cheaper way to do it (and more clear when the police get the 911 call). On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Phillip Vector vec...@mostdeadlygame.com wrote: This

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Wil Genovese
It looks like the ColdFusionJedi has already done this. See his blog post here. http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/5/29/Generating-Speech-with-ColdFusion-and-Java Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com wilg...@trunkful.com

RE: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Stephens, Larry V
Thanks -Original Message- From: Phillip Vector [mailto:vec...@mostdeadlygame.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 2:47 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Text to voice This MAY be of help.. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/introduction-to-text-to-speech-in.html On Fri, Mar

RE: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Stephens, Larry V
A possibility - but I don't know anyone who could reliably get (and hear and read) a text at, say, 3:00 am 365 days a year. -Original Message- From: Phillip Vector [mailto:vec...@mostdeadlygame.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 2:48 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Text to voice Though

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Phillip Vector
) a text at, say, 3:00 am 365 days a year. -Original Message- From: Phillip Vector [mailto:vec...@mostdeadlygame.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 2:48 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Text to voice Though.. Now that I think about it.. Have you considered having someone get a text

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Judah McAuley
There are lots of options out there for making phone calls and utilizing a text to speech engine or pre-recorded wav file. I use a company called Voxeo to generate automated outbound reminder calls and such. They have purchased a couple new providers in the last year or two and added a lot of

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Justin Scott
We are working on an application that requires us to make a telephone call. You might give Ben a call at Voice Broadcasting. They have a system you can feed data into to make phone calls for you and the rates are very reasonable. We have a system which feeds a list of phone numbers to them on

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Justin Scott
You might give Ben a call at Voice Broadcasting. I suppose it would help if I included their contact info: Ben Sargent 800-231-5629 b...@voicebroadcasting.com -Justin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

RE: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Mark A. Kruger
...@indiana.edu] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 1:25 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Text to voice We are working on an application that requires us to make a telephone call. It is an electronic allegory for a dead man's switch. We have a location with night watchmen who work alone. Worrying about them, since

RE: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Robert Harrison
There's the rub. We can't send the police a text and they don't monitor email. It has to be a voice message. It could even be a canned message. The concept is very cool, but whatever your message is how are you going to tell when they actually answer? If they put you on hold how will the

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Judah McAuley
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: There's the rub. We can't send the police a text and they don't monitor email. It has to be a voice message. It could even be a canned message. The concept is very cool, but whatever your message is how are

Re: Text to voice

2011-03-11 Thread Ian Skinner
On 3/11/2011 2:06 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: someone says, Hello? it will trigger a Human CPA event and restart your dialog that plays the we really need help message. I would also hope this project is being done with the cooperation and assistance of the authorities that will potentially be