by Email to Voice | Sep 15, 2018 | How To
What alternative is available to make a phone call using email? This is especially useful for sending a voice message to a phone from an alert system or business application. A cloud-based messaging service called EmailToVoice.Net provides the ability to convert an email to a phone call with no need to install special APIs, hardware or software.
Why Send a Phone Alert
Email is the typical mode of communication for alerts from the monitoring software, CRM or other business applications. But, few of us immediately respond to email, especially after-hours and when we are sleeping. A phone call, however, will get our attention at all of hours of the day.
Immediate response to the message is not the only reason to use a phone message for communication. If recipients are driving a truck, or any vehicle, an email is unacceptable. The message should not be read by the driver of a moving vehicle. A message coming across a hands-free phone may be an accepted alternative.
How to send an Alert to a Phone
EmailToVoice.Net provides the ability to make a phone call using any email interface. This can be tested using a personal email mailbox. However, the production use of this capability is by utilizing the email capability within Alert Software, CRM, ERP or any enterprise application.
How to Use EmailToVoice.Net
First, a user should subscribe to EmailToVoice.net. A free trial is available with a value of $4.95 USD allowing about 55 message units to be sent within a 28 day trial period. The user will be able to immediately make a phone call using their email by following the simple instructions below:
FROM Field
The email must be sent from the same email address as was specified during the free trial subscription process.
TO Field
The TO field will specify the phone number to be dialed. The TO field would look something like 2145551783@tts.message-service.org. (if the number is not a USA or Canadian number, then the TO field would look something like +6155551243@tts.message-service.org) The number can be any phone number in the world, with some exceptions due to international regulations, and does not have to be preregistered.
SUBJECT Field
The SUBJECT field can be anything brief. It is used for reporting.
Content of Email
The content of the email is converted to a pleasant sounding American English voice. (Leave at least 4 lines after the content of the email and before the email signature, so the Email signature is not converted to voice.)
Send the Email
That’s it. The EmalToVoice.net service will dial the number, play the voice rendition of the email content, handle voicemail, etc.
Advanced Features
There are many advanced features of EmailToVoice.Net. Those features will be covered in future posts. So, subscribe to our blog and stay updated. We also provide some very useful information in our Blog regarding Industrial Internet of Things, Monitoring Software and much more.
by Email to Voice | Feb 19, 2018 | Events
EmailToVoice.Net is exhibiting at the IoT Business Expo hosted by the TechTitans’ Internet of Things Forum.
Date: February 20.2018
Time: 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Website Internet of Things
Noah’s Event Venue
5380 Towne Square Dr
Plano, TX, 75024
by Email to Voice | Dec 1, 2016 | Product Feature
An Industrial IoT device often needs the ability to send a voice alert to a person. That voice alert will need to go to a telephone that may be a call center, a support person, or a repair truck. In any case, the telephone number cannot always be pre-registered or verified to the messaging service. Pre-registering the number with a service has the potential of halting the process – just at a time that is most critical.
EmailToVoice.Net is a cloud messaging service that allows a simple email interface to make a voice call to any telephone number. Unlike other services, the number does not have to be pre-registered or verified with EmailToVoice.Net.
IIoT Needs to Communcate
Industrial IoT devices often must communicate with human agents throughout the process. Gateways and business applications communicating with edge devices may have an email capability built into them. But, there are situations that require an alert or event communication be sent over a phone line as a voice message. Making a phone call is much more complex than sending an email.
EmailToVoice.Net solves the problem by converting the content of an email to an easily understood voice message and making the phone call. The service also supports pre-recorded voice, SMS and FAX. EmailToVoice.Net does this as a cloud service, so there is no hardware or software to install.
IIoT Communcation Solution
EmailToVoice.Net converts email content to voice so the recipient of your choice receives an easy to understand voice message on their phone or voice mail. There is no requirement for the receiving phone number to be registered or verified before the call is made. This is one of many enterprise-strength features of EmailToVoice.Net
by Email to Voice | Nov 23, 2016 | Product Feature
Email to Voice is a cloud based service where a business application or IoT device can make a phone call through a common email interface.
Business applications or IoT devices need to communicate with human agents throughout the business processes. Almost all popular programming languages have an email capability built into them. But, there are situations that require an alert or communication to be sent over a phone line as a voice message. Making a phone call is much more complex than sending an email.
EmailToVoice.Net solves the problem by converting the content of an email to a voice message and making the phone call. EmailToVoice.Net does this as a cloud service, So, there is no hardware or software to install.
This cloud messaging service converts email content to voice so the recipient of your choice receives an easy to understand voice message on their phone or voice mail. There is no requirement for the receiving phone number to be registered or verified before the call is made. The business can send a phone call from email to any landline or cell phone.
New Feature Allowing Entire Domain
In the past, EmailToVoice.Net allowed only individual email addresses to be authorized to send the message. Now, a new feature has been added. An entire domain can be authorized to make phone calls through an email interface. This means that any email address within a business unit or the company is able to send Text to Speech messages using a common email interface. The customer merely requests the EmailToVoice.Net team to make the change to the customer’s account profile on the backend cloud service. In addition, there are several security options available through the EmailToVoice.Net cloud service to avoid misuse.
EmailToVoice.Net continues to implement new and advanced features.to meet the needs of its enterprise customer’s needs. Learn more regarding the rich set of features at the EmailtToVoice.net web Site.
by Email to Voice | Oct 20, 2016 | Voice communications
Companies are using phone calls to send notifications and alerts for commercial purposes. One reason is because their customers pay more attention to voice calls these days than email or even text messages. Another factor is new laws regarding restrictions on reading text messages in cars and commercial vehicles.
In many cities and States in the U.S, it is illegal to read text messages or emails in a commercial or private vehicle. If an Industrial IoT (IIoT) device fails, that device needs to notify someone to come and fix it. That someone may be driving a commercial repair truck. The driver may be able to listen to a telephone call or voice message, but, cannot read an email or a text message and still remain within the law. IIoT devices need to be able to make a phone call and send a voice message to that repair truck.
So IIoT needs to be given a voice. An IIoT device that has merely the ability to send an email must now be able to dial the phone number of the repair truck, handle voice mail if there is no answer, retry if the call fails because of network issues, and more.
Voice really needs to be included in any Customer Service strategy.
With a cloud-based messaging service, all that is needed to send a voice message from an IIoT device is an ability to send an email. An Email interface is common in many IIoT devices or can be done through an Edge Interface to a central application.
In the past, implementation to communication-enable business processes would have been a major effort. Sending a message from an application or smart device to a phone required specialized hardware and software solutions to be installed in the client’s central data center. Connections to smart devices, CRM, PCS or ERP systems were through complex API’s or propriety software gateways.
With a cloud-based messaging services, all that is required is to add a new recipient in the TO field in the Email. The cloud-based messaging service takes care of the rest. To learn more about how to voice-enable IIoT, visit Email to Voice.
