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My Line Lets Colombians Call Google Assistant (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: At one time, Google Assistant could only be found on a handful of smartphones. Today, Google Assistant is available on 500 million devices -- smartphones, smart speakers, smart watches, tablets, smart televisions, and a broad range of home appliances and cars. But what about the billions of people in the world who still don't have a smartphone? Enter My Line, a phone number you can call to ask Google Assistant questions in parts of Colombia -- without a smartphone or computer or even the internet. When a person calls 6000913, they receive a welcome greeting and invitation to ask any question. After posing a question, users may hear prompts like "Do you have more questions?" or "Feel free to hang up whenever you're done," Cainkade Studio CEO Jeremy Landis told VentureBeat in a phone interview.
It's the 1950s all over again.
"Hello, My Line, do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
"Hello, My Line, is your refrigerator running?"
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And here I was today just googling how to get rid of the !@#$ assistant from my smart phone. Or at least get to to answer when I say, "Hey, Wiretap!"
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Hey AC? Who are you that you post off-topic political stuff on literally every forum I read no matter what is being discussed? Why do you do it? Is it entertaining? We get it. You love Conservatism. Do you think you maybe need a hobby? Like hacky sack, or model airplanes?
Nothing like a good line of Colombian.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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The service was really handy in the flip-phone days, and allowed Google to collect a massive training set for their voice recognition work.
As far as I know, you can still text google (466453) on a dumb phone (or smartphone) with a query, and it will respond. I used it back in the RAZR days.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Maybe some people here lived in the third world, or the educational / public service equivalent in the first world, but all my life ... we're talking back to High School in the early 1970's ... you could call "Information Services" at my local public library and get a real, live librarian answer any question ... and I mean ANY question ... usually within about two minutes. Sometimes they would ask for your number to call you back. Never waited more than a half hour in my life. Made a lot of money on bets that way, mind you.
Come the 21st century, Information Services still survives where I live. If Google Assistant (or any other online assistant, for that matter) has the right answer, they will check it. But, often enough, they are wrong and the real, live librarian gets you the right answer instead. How about where you live?
"users may hear prompts like "Do you have more questions?"" Ojala que diga, 'Tiene mas preguntas?'
(And to anyone who knows how to use accents and tildes in Spanish, or about inverted question marks: Sorry, this is /.)
I just tried(Yes, Colombian here) and a nice female voice said:"Hola, lo sentimos en este momento mi linea no puede ayudarte", something like "Hi, we are sorry but my line can't help you"
Slashdot ya no es que lo era!
Really.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
This doesn't work on my phone at all.
Is it just me?
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.