Re: texst to a landline

Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

On 1/3/2025 9:31 AM, micky wrote:
 

Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
suprisingly unsuccessful.
 

 
 There's no such thing.

There certainly is.

Think it through. Where could the text display
even if it did come through? If the sender converts it to voice then
that's a recorded audio message, not a text. You can't convert it
to voice on your end because you can't receive it in the first place.

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.