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From: ch@dce.ie (Charles Bryant)
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Subject: Voice Recognition (was: A New Feature)
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 From: apple!well.sf.ca.us!well!nagle@uunet.uu.net (John Nagle)

>Now here's a thought.  We all know the announcments which begin
>with a special three-tone sequence followed by "The number you have
>reached...".  How about a voice recognition unit to recognize the new
>number and update your autodialer?

How about the phone company giving the number using DTMF after the
voice message? That would be trivial to recognise, unlike a human
voice!


Charles Bryant