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TuVox Voice Interface

Posted by timothy on from the voice-menus-are-inherently-evil dept.

pablos writes: "NYTimes has an article about Tuvox who set up Handspring and Activision with voice interfaces for tech support. Apparently they can do away with the annoying 'press # now' menus. I've used things like TellMe, which played an ad everytime it didn't understand you, but I'm wondering if this sort of thing is starting to work anywhere. Anybody called Handspring for tech support lately?"

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  1. Voice activated systems suck by The_Fire_Horse · · Score: -1, Troll

    I had to use one last week - it was my doctors surgery...
    'Thanks for calling WeKillU Medical Center - please speak your symptom'
    [me] My Ass hurts
    'You have a problem with your ass. Please state if it is : itchy, sore, bleeding
    [me] My ass is bleeding
    'Thank you - please state why your ass is bleeding
    [me] I went to some weird 'goats.cx' website and it just started bleeding
    'Thank you - we have determined that you are a troll - press any key to hang up now - goodbye

  2. Jesus was a Negro. by Bacillus0101 · · Score: -1, Troll


    Praise be to the black Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

    Christ was not of semetic descent, but of A F R I C A N lineage.

  3. AI Vox Voice Interface by Mentifex · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ay, 'tis the grand convergence of TuVox and Tellme Networks and all these other speech technologies leading us inexorably onwards towards the Technological Singularity.

    Speech technology for Open Source Artificial Intelligence is now at a critical point, because the free Open Source Robot AI Mind has become capable of immortally self-rejuvenating perpetual mentation and therefore any Linux maven with speech-tech know-how may vie for the distinction of hosting the longest-running Artificial Mind and of equipping the AI with truly phonemic speech recognition and generation.