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
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
Telus uses what sounds to be the same program. It seems to be slower than pressing the numbers.
Poor Julie. You were just
Poor Julie. You were just toying with her.
Julie’s a whore. She told me
Julie’s a whore. She told me she was my new credit card assistant, and I believed her.
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