Show HN: SciTeX Notification – Give AI agents a voice: TTS, phone calls, SMS

[ywatanabe1989]

I built this after getting tired of staring at terminals waiting for agents to finish.

scitex-notification gives AI agents working on local and remote servers (via MCP) a multi-backend notification system — they speak progress aloud from speakers on your desktop, and escalate to a phone call if you don't respond (Twilio setup needed).

The escalation chain: TTS audio → desktop → email → SMS → phone call. After 7 unanswered audio alerts, the agent calls your phone. Works through iPhone Silent Mode via Emergency Bypass or the repeated-calls trick (iOS allows the second call from the same number within 3 minutes).

Spun out of SciTeX, a scientific computing ecosystem — but works standalone.

pip install "scitex-notification[all]"

[noobnooc]

Cool escalation chain! If you just need the "webhook → iOS phone call" part without the full agent stack, Echobell (https://echobell.one) does exactly that — one iOS app, no server setup. Also works with repeated-call silent bypass.