I'm looking for a piece of software, which may or may not exist. My Google-Fu hasn't turned up anything that really fits what I'm looking for (and maybe it doesn't exist), but then again maybe somebody here has some thoughts.
In a nutshell: What I'm hoping for is something like a softphone with a scriptable interface. What I'm hoping to do is setup a computer which dial out through one of various phone systems (Cisco, Asterisk, etc) or hosted services, and play a pre-recorded messages. (text to speech would be even better, but I realize I might be dreaming on that one....) Obviously SIP would be the best option (Is there really any other? )
Stepping back a bit.... No, I don't want to set up a spam service or your typical robo-caller... I'm more hoping to use this for critical "system down" type notifications. The typical email and text message notifications are fine for most alerts, but they don't always grab your attention like a phone and rings, and rings, and rings... (God knows texts and emails don't wake me up in the middle of the night)..
I know I could probably make something work with asterisk's call scripting, but the rub is that I don't have asterisk running at most of my locations.... Of course, I'm not married to the idea of s scriptable softphone, but that was the first thought that popped into my head after remembering the old voice notification systems based off old modems and thinking "why hasn't someone replicated that functionality with a VOIP SIP device / softphone?"
In a nutshell: What I'm hoping for is something like a softphone with a scriptable interface. What I'm hoping to do is setup a computer which dial out through one of various phone systems (Cisco, Asterisk, etc) or hosted services, and play a pre-recorded messages. (text to speech would be even better, but I realize I might be dreaming on that one....) Obviously SIP would be the best option (Is there really any other? )
Stepping back a bit.... No, I don't want to set up a spam service or your typical robo-caller... I'm more hoping to use this for critical "system down" type notifications. The typical email and text message notifications are fine for most alerts, but they don't always grab your attention like a phone and rings, and rings, and rings... (God knows texts and emails don't wake me up in the middle of the night)..
I know I could probably make something work with asterisk's call scripting, but the rub is that I don't have asterisk running at most of my locations.... Of course, I'm not married to the idea of s scriptable softphone, but that was the first thought that popped into my head after remembering the old voice notification systems based off old modems and thinking "why hasn't someone replicated that functionality with a VOIP SIP device / softphone?"