Through a trial service, British Telecom customers can send text messages from cell phones to landline phones using newly implemented text-to-speech conversion technology. Through synthetic speech conversion on SMS-enabled phones, the users will be able to send messages to mobile phones using the same system and receive them as text. Users with voice mail systems will have messages delivered directly to their voice mailbox. Recipients without voice mail will receive the text through a phone call where an automated voice will deliver the message. (Source: CommsDesign.com, BWCS)
Wow this is really cool. The idea is to enable text messaging for landline phones. I am wondering what the pricing structure would be and whether that would really have an impact i.e. increase the already popular service. Imagine the fright your granny gets when she picks up the phone and an automated voice says - 'ello gran, b there soon, running a bit l8t. Grandson.
I am curious how text to voice and voice to text will deal with the 112 character limit and the sms-specific text-style that is largely alpha-numeric and uses a series of acronyms and word-crumbs.
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