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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: texst to a landline
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 22:34:46 -0000 (UTC)
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Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
> On 1/3/2025 9:31 AM, micky wrote:
> 
>> Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
>> suprisingly unsuccessful.
>> 
> 
>  There's no such thing. 

There certainly is. 

> Think it through. Where could the text display
> even if it did come through? If the sender converts it to voice then
> that's a recorded audio message, not a text. You can't convert it
> to voice on your end because you can't receive it in the first place.

Text to speech is trivially easy to accomplish computationally. I had
freeware PC programme in the 90s which did it very well. 

In the UK receiving txt messages via landline is (was? I've not had one for
ages) commonplace: texts are delivered as an automated voice message.