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No there isn't.
Text if school is cancelled. Throw 2fa out the window. Phone numbers are not identity. Text appointment reminders. Literally nothing needs a robo voice that isn't better as text.
What if you’re blind
Then you clearly don't matter to Mango.
Blind people use special assistive software on their phones so they can hear text
Radio. Text to speech. Having someone who cares about you.
You want your doctor to broadcast your appointment reminders over the radio?
My doctor can afford to call or text or have a secretary do so.
In 2024, have a human call for reminders for every client every single day for every appointment… yeah right. Enjoy that while it lasts.
If you don't have the time to call all of your patients, you don't have the time to provide medical care to them.
You'll actually have a lot of time to provide medical care to your patients when you don’t have to waste all that time calling them for no reason when that can be easily automated.
Secretary
Doctors don’t have secretaries, they have medical assistants, and medical billing and coding. Both of which have better things to do than make appointment reminder calls all day when it can be easily automated.
Shows what you know.
Anything? Yup.
Phone numbers actually can be an identity, but generally that's just business numbers. There's also a lot of phone numbers that aren't cell phones and can't get texts. It's a lot easier and cheaper for companies to design one system. Depending on the company, they'll still do text/email reminders for things. Old people like phone calls, so companies need to know their audience too. Again, cheaper to build a single system, so that tends to be the default.
Source: I design call centers for a living, personally done probably 200+ projects over the years, in banking, insurance, retail, transportation, state/local govt, etc.
Absolutely not. I can't use my Amazon account because of this stupid shit.