V-related

[Doug Millison]

V-COMMERCE  As V is for Voice, you might think this was the old way
of doing business - by talking to somebody. Nothing so simple. This
is voice-commerce 21st-century style, buying things by chatting to
a voice-activated computer. Two technologies lie at its core:
natural language speech recognition (so the computer knows what you
are saying) and speaker authentication (so it knows who you are).
But can you gossip with it? And does it have a sense of humour?

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WORLD WIDE WORDS         ISSUE 200          Saturday 12 August 2000
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