diff --git a/lib/tasks/say.js b/lib/tasks/say.js
index dc25245c..7e95f77b 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/say.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/say.js
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ class TaskSay extends Task {
           alert_type: AlertType.TTS_NOT_PROVISIONED,
           vendor
         }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for no tts'));
+        this.notifyError(`No speech credentials have been provisioned for ${vendor}`);
         throw new Error('no provisioned speech credentials for TTS');
       }
       // synthesize all of the text elements
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ class TaskSay extends Task {
             vendor,
             detail: err.message
           }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for tts failure'));
+          this.notifyError(err.message || err);
           return;
         }
       };
diff --git a/lib/tasks/task.js b/lib/tasks/task.js
index ebe8d087..4bcabcfc 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/task.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/task.js
@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ class Task extends Emitter {
     return this.callSession.normalizeUrl(url, method, auth);
   }
 
+  notifyError(errMsg) {
+    const params = {error: errMsg, ...this.cs.callInfo.toJSON()};
+    this.cs.requestor.request('jambonz:error', '/error', params)
+      .catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Task:notifyError error sending error'));
+  }
+
   async performAction(results, expectResponse = true) {
     if (this.actionHook) {
       const params = results ? Object.assign(results, this.cs.callInfo.toJSON()) : this.cs.callInfo.toJSON();
diff --git a/lib/utils/http-requestor.js b/lib/utils/http-requestor.js
index 50ab80d4..805c2093 100644
--- a/lib/utils/http-requestor.js
+++ b/lib/utils/http-requestor.js
@@ -50,7 +50,11 @@ class HttpRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
    * @param {object} [params] - request parameters
    */
   async request(type, hook, params, httpHeaders = {}) {
+    /* jambonz:error only sent over ws */
+    if (type === 'jambonz:error') return;
+
     assert(HookMsgTypes.includes(type));
+
     const payload = params ? snakeCaseKeys(params, ['customerData', 'sip']) : null;
     const url = hook.url || hook;
     const method = hook.method || 'POST';