I know the Geffrye Museum had something like this for their 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Not sure whether it was twilio or a different system.
You dialled up a local (London) number and heard someone speaking about the object in question. Obviously, as Mia says, this works best for domestic visitors on a contract only, though.
Adrian
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Subject: Twilio
Hey all
I've just been fiddling with Twilio - https://www.twilio.com - which enables you to do exciting things with phone numbers...(!)
You can do stuff like "if user calls this number then read out this text" or "route this number through to this extension" or "ask user to choose from the menu" or even "send this data to an API" or...
And - I thought that this would potentially be a pretty amazing platform to build audio tours on. You could purchase a toll-free number and then have a web-based backend where you uploaded recordings of curators or whatever. I'm still playing but I'm pretty sure sending the user a web link via SMS or email or whatever is all going to be possible too..
Anyway - wondering if anyone has played with this or similar?
cheers!
Mike
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