The script takes a command line parameter, and vocalizes it.
Example:
cscript tts.vbs "Hello, my name is Anthony."
This script does not play a wav file, rather it generates text to speach on the fly.
So if you wanted it to play the caller information, you could pass it the ANI as the parameter. The Run External Application action provides you the ability to pass the Calling Number to the application as a parameter. Unfortunately, it's limited to passing the parameters at the end of the exec string, so things like this would not be possible without script modification:
Example of what will not work:
cscript tts.vbs "A caller at " ani " is calling you."
That will not work, because the CAD action does not let you specify the parameter for ANI at an arbitrary location within the exec string. It only let's you use it at the end, like this:
Example of what will work:
cscript tts.vbs "Call from " ani
What I noticed during my testing is that the default behavoir of the tts engine is to read the phone number like a number and not like a string of digits.
Here's a patched version that fixes that:
filename tts.vbs
dim args
set args = wscript.arguments
if args.count < 1 then wscript.quit(1)
dim tts, sentence, regex, number_matches, number_match, number_exploded
set tts = createobject("sapi.spvoice")
set regex = new regexp
regex.global = true
regex.pattern = "\d+"
sentence = ""
for i = 0 to args.length - 1: sentence = sentence & args.item(i) & " ": next
set number_matches = regex.execute(sentence)
for each number_match in number_matches
number_exploded = ""
for i = 1 to len(number_match.value)
number_exploded = number_exploded & mid(number_match.value, i, 1) & " "
next
number_exploded = left(number_exploded, len(number_exploded) - 1)
sentence = replace(sentence, number_match.value, number_exploded)
next
tts.speak sentence
set tts = nothing
wscript.quit(0)
Now that new version would turn this:
cscript tts.vbs "Call from 6125551212"
Into this:
"Call from 6 1 2 5 5 5 1 2 1 2"
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