Ideas ahead. My convergence idea for VOIP.

Though we have celebrated the year 2007 as a year of Broadband here in India yet there are a million of internet users who are still connected to low bandwidth internet connection. There are a lot of reasons behind it, be it non availability of services to rural area or availability of only a limited connection in a specific area. There are a lot of internet services available who demands Broadband as a bare minimum requirement. The most interesting one of them is VOIP. Let me explain it in brief for those readers who don’t know what it is. VOIP stands for “voice over internet protocol” i.e. You can talk to any computer or communicater connected to internet. By further expansion and applying convergence we can talk to a user of landline telefone or cellphone.
Now let i expose my vision for these services. We all know that convergence is everywhere so why cannot we add some more convergence to this service. I hope everyone will be familiar with text to speech programs, these are programs which can read selected text on your computer screen. Suppose if we can develop an IM client with implementation of text to speech engine, we can mimic a real voice chat session even on a very low bandwidth, as much low as 15 kb/ps will be suffice. People may say that they are not satisfied with the accuracy of text to speech programs, the voice is totally inhumane. Now i have one more idea. Have you ever heard an IVRS session, of course you have heard, remember the last time when you have checked your cellphone’s prepaid balance, the female voice during an IVRS session was produced by adding/arranging prerecorded voice bits, using computer algorithm. We can steal this idea for our purpose, we can create a database of prerecorded voice of frequently used word or we can provide a facility to a user to pronounce a specific word and record it in his own way. Since all this process is offline it has nothing to do with internet bandwith.
Finally we have rendered a service through which we can do a voice chat even on a 15 kb/ps bandwidth, which is going to exchange only a few megabytes of data for an entire month.