Text-to-Voice Messaging
From: NASA Tech Briefs Insider - 10/23/2007

A text-to-voice messaging system enables one to send text messages by
Internet and let them arrive in the form of speech directly on the
addressee's phone. It saves all the communication data on a database and,
under authorization, controls, selects, checks, confirms, and/or identifies
the criteria of transmission operating directly from the Web. The system can
combine more messages (text converted in voice and or pre- recorded messages)
in a single call. Using this system, people can send text messages from the
Web and reach any phones - not only GSM and mobile-like SMS messages. 

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