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I wonder what all these people would do if we ever managed to build a voice recognition system that actually works.

• gaius 15y ago
  Well, a call centre is a voice recognition system. It's a black box, you plug phone lines into one end, and your back-end corporate databases into the other. Artificial artificial intelligence, I've heard it referred to as.
  • zalthor 15y ago
    It's really sad that its cheaper to have a person act like a computer than vice-versa. Its like we are going through the industrial revolution, only backwards.
    • ebiester 15y ago
      It's a matter of algorithms and processing power and data points at this point. With the number of people working on it, we're close. Computer systems have come leaps and bounds in the last 5 years, and computational linguistics is not an easy problem.
  • sethg 15y ago
    Likewise, the first companies that made telephone directories available in the Web didn’t try to OCR the phone books; it was cheaper to hire people in China to transcribe the listings.