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October 2006 - Posts

The rage

Ouch. The Consumerist blog picks up a graph in a Fast Company article that puts speech recognition technology at 4 on a descending scale of 10 (humane) to 0 (inhumane) , then the commenters really get stuck in. The comments make fascinating reading -
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The voices behind the machine

Here's an inside look at the 'voice talent' industry - the people who provide prompts (and thereby branding) for companies with automated systems - with the following data points: Perhaps half of all Fortune 1,000 companies still rely on their own staffs

Taking the rap

"Fancy-pants" speech technology gets the blame for... a database failure? Paul McNamara, an editor at Network World, recently blogged about a couple of calls he made to his healthcare provider's customer service, which is fronted by a speech recognition
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