Hey! Did you see what Gerry Mascarenhas wrote on Jul 31 ?
GM> I had posted a query somewhat similar.I had asked that can I dial from
GM> an ordinary telephone instrument into my computer and hear my e-mail
GM> read out to me and also can this be setup for a group of users.
If you can find a Linux utility that will convert text to speech then you
will be able to do this fairly easily. I have no idea if such a utility
exists... check the usual places... freshmeat, sunsite etc.
GM> Can vgetty do something like this.I am still not sure if this can be
GM> done using vgetty
There would be a few things you would be using to get this job done...
cron - to start the show
pppd - to log on to the net (probably in demand dial mode)
fetchmail - to get the email
procmail - to filter the incomming email through the text-speech thing
text-speech-thingy - to convert the email to speech
vgetty - to ring you and "read" the mail to you
various shell scripts - to make it happen a little easier
I just hope you are not subscribed to linux-kernel otherwise you are going
to spend an awfull long time on the phone :-)
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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