I've received two sales calls where I could not tell if I was talking to a computer or a person with an overly slick voice. I asked "the guy" today a couple of simple questions and "he" was able to answer them after a couple of seconds. "His" voice kept coming back with the same upbeat professional quality. The "guy" yesterday also sounded like "he" was one of the top professional voices in the country. Better than most voices on the television advertising. It was very spooky because I kept getting the idea that AI is now so far advanced that our efforts are moot no matter what we do. Maybe a particular telemarketer has found a niche where he only hires really top voices and they did not realize that I was only talking to them because I could not tell if they were computers or not. Next time I am going to jump into some questions other than, "what did you say your name was?" I am going to ask about the product. Thinking now I have to come to the conclusion that they were people, but it really makes me think about what I am doing. Maybe I should stick to finding new ways to automate the annotation of text. Jim Bromer
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