isn't technology grand?
Jun. 21st, 2002 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioI just got one of the more bizarre phone calls in recent memory.
It was obvious that it was a recording, and thinking it was a telemarketer (such calls always had been, until now), I was about to hang up. But then the mechanical voice identified itself as the Sears repair service, so I didn't. (They have our microwave, which got damaged but not destroyed by the power surge.)
The rest of the call was completely automated and told us that our [pause] microwave is ready for pickup at the [click] Pittsburgh repair center and the charge is [pause] [some amount here] and they are open from [click] 8AM to [click] 5PM on... and so on, in that sing-song that comes from splicing digital voices together.
I wonder how long it will be before they can make these kinds of calls smooth and not choppy.
It was obvious that it was a recording, and thinking it was a telemarketer (such calls always had been, until now), I was about to hang up. But then the mechanical voice identified itself as the Sears repair service, so I didn't. (They have our microwave, which got damaged but not destroyed by the power surge.)
The rest of the call was completely automated and told us that our [pause] microwave is ready for pickup at the [click] Pittsburgh repair center and the charge is [pause] [some amount here] and they are open from [click] 8AM to [click] 5PM on... and so on, in that sing-song that comes from splicing digital voices together.
I wonder how long it will be before they can make these kinds of calls smooth and not choppy.
Good example of voice system...
Date: 2002-06-24 06:31 am (UTC)