Saturday, 22 March 2008

Orange and Turing...

Orange's Pay as you Go automated credit line has for a while employed a script to make it sound like you are talking to a real person. Obviously not completely convincing, or for that matter convincing at all as real operator generally don't ask you to key in the values on the keypad, but it was quite a nice touch, if a little creepy. But it's creepiness has increased - they have now incorporated voice recognition, so that you speak to the recording. Bizarre. Considering I've been known to say "Thank you" to ATMs, this is messing with my mind...

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