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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 9:06:54 EST
From: John Boteler <csense!bote@uunet.uu.net>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Voice Actuated Phone Systems
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Barton F. Bruce typed:

> Wouldn't it be nice to simply speak into the phone and say 'my friend
> Tony Jones's third office line please', and from the random pay phone be
> voice recognised as you and thereby indicating which Tony Jones is
> being refered to.

Come on, we had this in the early part of this century.

She was called "Central".

She even provided Caller*ID!


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