[Asterisk-Dev] Text messaging Idea

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:02, Tom Dickenson wrote:
> Any way that their could be a module created for asterisk to do Text
> Messaging to Cellular phones?
>
> I think it would require some Speech to Text technology involed in
> it. and figuring out which service provider to send the text message
> to.

Actually, Asterisk already supports text messaging, at least in IAX2
(not sure about SIP).  All you'd really need to do is to create an
Asterisk channel driver to talk to the equipment that you use to talk
to the cell network, then use the builtin SendText application.

-- 
Tilghman