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In Auckland the local library would make an automated voice phone call to inform that a library book was overdue.

Receiving this call was annoying and problematic.. what if you weren't the intended recipient of the call, someone else in the house answered it? Or a voice mail system answered it? etc etc

I'm not fond of automated voice dialers.. what is your purpose for creating one?

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by water (Deacon) on Oct 07, 2005 at 12:32 UTC
    "Cat ran out of food", "basement flooded", etc. Warnings from my house to me, not a telemarketing scheme! :)

    water

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      Wouldn't text (SMS) messages to your mobile be quicker, easier and cheaper?

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        bad cell coverage near home and office -- rural.
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        I agree. I also remember a few years ago declining a service from my (then) provider that would give people the opportunity to send an email to a special address. A text-to-voice system would translate an incoming email into a voice message.

        Another provider was willing to do it the other way - voice-mail to e-mail: if you didn't answer your phone, the caller could leave a voice-message, recorded by the provider. The voice-message would then be send as an email - not text, but a sound file. This was in the pre-adsl era, with pay-per-tick calls. I declined that service as well.

        Anyway, after pagers, and later mobile phones, became available, in jobs requiring monitoring boxes/services, I've send text messages to those devices. Most of the time this was done by just sending out an email.

        Perl --((8:>*
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