I’m trying to come up with a solution to assist a visually impaired client. We already have a FreePBX install in place so I want to figure if there’s any easy way to accomplish within that framework without having to buy a bunch of extra hardware.
The user, being visually impaired, really has no ability to see the caller ID on his phone… we’ve tried a few different phones but the caller ID display is never big enough to see. So what I’ve thought might work is to have a 2nd phone on his desk and to have some sort of script within the FreePBX system that when a call comes in the 2nd phone will auto-answer and announce the caller ID over the speaker (ie. incoming call from “john doe” <123-555-1234>).
I’m pretty sure FreePBX/Asterisk is capable of doing something like this… can any of the gurus here point me in the general direction of how it might be accomplished?
Cheers and thanks,
Mike