Re: Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of...

2007-08-29 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
John Carter wrote: > Any suggestions for humourous voice robot like things for it to say... I recorded myself saying "Your call centre response time is excessive, so you have been placed on hold, please wait until I get back", then left it looping next to the phone... I also came up with the idea

RE: Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of...

2007-08-28 Thread Gauland, Michael
t: Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of... Still trying to get telecom/xtra to fix the broadband line. Having spent a _lot_ of time listening to "the team is still busy on previous calls" and piped music. (Still going as I type this...) My mind starts wandering

Re: Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of...

2007-08-28 Thread Paul Swafford
John Carter wrote: Still trying to get telecom/xtra to fix the broadband line. Having spent a _lot_ of time listening to "the team is still busy on previous calls" and piped music. (Still going as I type this...) My mind starts wandering... About "festival" speech synthesizer and irritating vo

Re: Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of...

2007-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
Thats a long time to be on hold, and what say they answer the darned phone while you are at the post office or keeping the appointment with the notary? On Wed, August 29, 2007 11:29 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > The way to get a large corporation to do something is to write a very > polite, ye

Re: Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of...

2007-08-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
The way to get a large corporation to do something is to write a very polite, yet firm, letter to the chairman of the board explaining exactly what the problem it. Hand written on bond notepaper. Send it by registered, personal delivery post, or courier. Keep a notary witnessed copy. Repeat after a

Re: Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of...

2007-08-28 Thread Chris & Lee Downie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was rumoured to say: Any suggestions for humourous voice robot like things for it to say... www.moviewavs.com/Movies/2001.html Cheers, Chris

Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of...

2007-08-28 Thread John Carter
Still trying to get telecom/xtra to fix the broadband line. Having spent a _lot_ of time listening to "the team is still busy on previous calls" and piped music. (Still going as I type this...) My mind starts wandering... About "festival" speech synthesizer and irritating voice recognition robo