The voice SMS service becomes a valuable tool for ensuring the safety of your recipients by allowing them to listen to your message via a text-to-speech SMS reader.

How does voice SMS reading work?

The voice SMS reader is a service that converts text messages into voice. These would otherwise be sent as traditional SMS. The audio recording is generated automatically by the platform. To do this, you simply need to compose a text message, ensuring the content fits within a thirty-second duration.

Your recipient will receive your message via a phone call. The SMS reader uses an auto-generated synthetic voice. You do not need to record anything yourself.

Phone calls offer advantages such as higher response rates than SMS, immediate receipt, transmission to both mobile and landline numbers, and the ability to listen to the message reader using a hands-free device or speakerphone.

Why use professional voice messages?

The purpose of including voice messaging in your communication process is to increase productivity by improving internal communication and customer service, while simultaneously reducing message-taking costs. Implementing an SMS reader system encourages better public relations within companies.

In companies that use a voice SMS reader, employees can benefit from having messages relevant to their daily tasks read aloud to them.

The Octopush SMS platform allows companies to send voice SMS to any phone in the world at any time of day or night. Using voice SMS ensures immediate message delivery and reduces wait times. This way, your recipients do not need to look at a message or a phone screen.

Many types of businesses, from investment firms to manufacturers, can quickly gain significant advantages by using message readers or voice SMS for internal notifications between remote sites and headquarters. The more a company uses TTS (text-to-speech) message reading, the more benefits and cost savings it can achieve.

When using a voice messaging system for text-to-speech, users must ensure their communication is clear, concise, complete, and unambiguous. A voice message can create a lasting first impression, so it is important to follow these rules.

How do you integrate voice SMS text-to-speech?

An important point to consider when using the voice SMS reader is that in France, there are restrictions on the use of this service. Companies may only implement it for transmitting professional information, and never for advertising purposes.

Contact our customer service representatives to learn more about the scope of the SMS reader service.

Consider training sessions for your company's employees so they know what type of information to expect when receiving a call from the SMS reader.

Test and navigate through the various system options to improve or streamline your messages.

Don't neglect your audience. Make sure to let your customers know what kind of notifications they will receive via SMS or voice SMS reader.

Test the SMS reader features and deploy the most common use cases first. Later, you can evaluate which applications work best for you.

Tips for writing messages for the text-to-speech reader

• Make sure you have a clear message in mind when you start creating your SMS campaign.
• Be brief and direct. Explain the purpose of the message without rambling or repeating yourself.
• If you need to discuss a longer or more detailed topic, include a callback number in your message. It is wise to provide a date and time when you will be available if you would like to be called back.

• TTS technology offers a human-like voice with language-specific intonation, but it is still a robot. Pay attention to how you compose your text message.