Voicent version 0.01
====================

This is the perl interface module for Voicent Gateway, a VoiceXML 
gateway. You can use this interface module to make telephone calls
from your perl program, provided that the Voicent Gateway is
installed and can be accessed through HTTP. There is a FREE version
of Voicent Gateway program downloadable from:

http://www.voicent.com/download

The call_text function is used to make a phone call with a text
message. The text message will be played over the phone using text-to-
speech engine. 

The call_audio function is used to make a telephone call with an audio
file. The audio message will be played over the phone.

The call_till_confirm is used to make a serious of phone calls. It
will stop automatically if anyone press in a confirmation code. Please
note that this feature requires you to have a professional version of
Voicent BroadcastByPhone installed.


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires you have Voicent Gateway installed on some machine
accessible using HTTP protocol.


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This library is provided AS-IS.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.


