Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Phone Notify

This is a great little web gadget that I'm totally enthralled with. It allows you to send a computerized phone message to anyone's phone number -- even cell phones!

The text to speech engine is a little crusty, but you do get your choice of voices: entering a number between 0-9 in the VoiceID field provides a good mix of male and female voices, some of which are more understandable than others.

FeedMonkey does not advise using this service for any kind of illegal activity -- there's even a disclaimer on the site that threats and things of that nature will be reported to authorities -- but it's a great way to prank your family and some of your close friends.

There are two improvements I'd like to see: add a feature to phone at a specific time so you can set phone reminders to yourself, and get rid of that annoying IP address information at the end of the message!

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