THINPHONE lets you do email
to telephones
THINPHONE lets you email messages,
and forward files or our links to a telephone.
To: Phone@Thinmail.com
Subject: 8005551212
----
John,
I am going
to be a little late to the meeting.
Within a minute, the telephone
rings and a human-like voice starts reading your message. The
receiver can interrupt or replay the message and can record a
response to the message! The number should be a 10 digit number,
no spaces, dashes, or parentheses.
You can combine the Number and
"@Thinphone.com" into a single email address: XXXXXXXXXX@Thinphone.com,
replacing the X's with the 10 digits of a phone number. So the
following is equivalent to the previous example:
To: 8005551212@Thinphone.com
----
John,
I am going
to be a little late to the meeting.
Delivery Receipt
After the message is sent, you
will receive back a short email that the message succeeded or
failed.
Attaching Files
Thinphone allows you to send
attached files (or Thinmail links) to a telephone. Currently
it only converts DOC, HTML, and TXT files to speech,
and plays 8kpbs WAV and MP3 files. Make sure the
file-type is either "Audio/wav" or "Audio/mp3".
Most PC's come with a "sound recorder" accesssory so
if you have a microphone, you can record a file to attach. Make
sure you set the file properties to "8k Bits/second".
We found "ULAW" to work best.
If you don't have a microphone,
you can send a Thinphone to yourself, press 2, and record a file,
which will be returned to you as a WAV file:
Responses
If the receiver presses "2"
they can record a response to your message. You will receive
an email back with a WAV file (as a thinned link) if they do
respond. On your desktop, you will be able to click and hear
the response, provided you have a sound player set up. This is
what a reply looks like:
To: You@your.email.address
From: 8005551212@Thinphone.com
Subject: Voice Reply from Telephone Call
----
The receiver has left you a message:
http://www.thinmail.com/tm/v/982798sd-fes/random.wav
Filetype: Audio/wav; Filesize: 33748
Because
Thinmail lets you forward WAV links to a phone, even if you get
a reply on your text pager, you can forward it to a phone to
hear it!
Parallel Thinphoning
Now almost any phone (in the
US) has an email address. You can put them in your address book.
And, just like you can send email to several people with a single
email message, you can send Thinphone messages to several
phones with a single email message! It is a quick way to
alert friends to a change in schedule, or to conduct a straw
poll, or throw a last minute party! You can mix Thinphone addresses
with regular email addresses, Thinmail addresses and Thinfax
addresses for personal message blasting!
To: 'peters
phone' <8005551212@Thinphone.com>,
'Pauls phone'<8005553344@Thinphone.com>,
'Marys phone'<8002215555@Thinphone.com>
----
Jam Session at my house at 9 O clock!
Extension Dialing
Use the "P" to make
a 2 second pause in dialing. After the 10 digit number, the dialing
system waits for an answer. Any more P's digits, or "#"
or "*" are then played as touch-tones to the receiving
system. For example
8005551212p777pp@thinphone.com
will dial the
phone, and after it answers, will dial extension 777, and wait
4 seconds before reading the message.
Billing
We charge only 25c per completed
call in US and track your account in our billing section.
|