dlmorgan999
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I am in the process of building a new house. I am going to be doing HEAVY automation. One of the things I would really like to have is voice announcements. My automation controller will be an HAI OmniPro II (I've been an HAI user for years and have a bunch of custom written software to drive it). I am also using HouseBot software as the "glue" to integrate my audio/video, HVAC and security with touchscreen panels (I have been using this in my current house for almost two years).
Based on some posts here on the forum I was originally thinking about running some separate speaker wires to various locations and driving them from a soundcard on the HouseBot server PC. But then I got another idea from a post here on the forums. I will also be installing a Panasonic KX-TD816 phone system and it has the ability to do system-wide paging. If there was some kind of text-to-speech hardware that could output to a phone line that might be a really good solution. Does anyone know of hardware that can do something like this? Also I'm open to any other ideas
-- Dave
Based on some posts here on the forum I was originally thinking about running some separate speaker wires to various locations and driving them from a soundcard on the HouseBot server PC. But then I got another idea from a post here on the forums. I will also be installing a Panasonic KX-TD816 phone system and it has the ability to do system-wide paging. If there was some kind of text-to-speech hardware that could output to a phone line that might be a really good solution. Does anyone know of hardware that can do something like this? Also I'm open to any other ideas
-- Dave