From my friend Ann comes a link to this article in the New York Times about Amtrak’s new automated telephone system. I decided to take it out for a test drive. Here’s how it went [4.6MB WAV]. I was impressed, although things did go off the rails in the end when I tried to leave.
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This was surprisingly entertaining. Oddly, I enjoyed listening to your tone of voice when talking to a robot even more than the robot.
Telus uses what sounds to be the same program. It seems to be slower than pressing the numbers.
Julie’s a whore. She told me she was my new credit card assistant, and I believed her.
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