[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk help via PSTN/VOIP

[Herman Webley]

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