Re: texst to a landline

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
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Text to speech is trivially easy to accomplish computationally. I had
freeware PC programme in the 90s which did it very well.
 
In the UK receiving txt messages via landline is (was? I've not had one for
ages) commonplace: texts are delivered as an automated voice message.

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  I don't know if it's common in other places, but in Australia, I also
had it the other way around, speech-to-text: Someone left me 'voicemal',
but that (human) voice was converted to text and that text was sent by
SMS. Of course the text sometimes contained translation errors, but in
general was quite understandable and I didn't need to call my voicemail
(which wasn't enabled).

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