Text Messaging Hits Landlines

TeleMessage, a messaging tech company based in Acton, Mass., has developed a text-to-speech engine that lets users send their text messages to landline numbers and deliver them as short voice messages, PC World reports.

TeleMessage Vice President of Sales Mark Carlin said in the report that the goal of the service is to let business users quickly and quietly send messages to co-workers, friends or family members who are likely to be sitting close to their landlines or who are not adept at text messaging.

Currently the service works on all major U.S. carriers except AT&T—would love to know the story behind that—and can also send status reports back to the text message’s sender saying whether the text was received by a live caller, a voice mailbox, or not received at all.

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