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   Mike (profile), 22 Jun 2000 @ 2:51pm

   
   

   Not impressed

   Yeah, I'm not impressed. I've tried both TellMe and Quack.com (which is very similar) and the interface is actually quite annoying. The thing is when you're using a browser it's easy to run through information quickly. With these voice portals, it takes forever. For example, if you're looking for a movie listing, it starts reading off all the movies which you have to listen to, and then say "Tell me more" or whatever when it gets to the one you want. Very slow. With a normal browser, your eyes find what you're looking for quickly and it's easy to move to it. Also, both services often had trouble understanding what I said leading to frustration. The last time a friend and I were looking for a movie we used TellMe for about 2 minutes and found it was so annoying that we hung up and brought up the browser on the phone. I think they need a lot of work...

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   Ryan, 22 Jun 2000 @ 3:06pm

   
   

   Re: Not impressed

   That's what I was worried about, I remember the best voice recognition software that I had when I was last in the bay area (on my phone) would require me to say a name about three times before it would call one of my friends. I guess tellme haven't improved on this technology, pretty disappointing.

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   ScooterBoy, 22 Jun 2000 @ 4:31pm

   
   

   Re: Not impressed

   actually, i've been playing with the tellme.com service, and find it pretty useful. the voice recognition is pretty good (provided that you don't use speakerphone), and once you kind of get used to the interface, it's pretty easy. so.. i like it.

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   =), 23 Jun 2000 @ 10:44am

   
   

   Re: Not impressed

   Two things:
   
   1) You _MUST_ try blackjack. Funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Something about playing cards with Sean Connery that even makes me laugh thinking about it. *grin*
   
   2) Free 2 minute phone calls (keyword phonebooth). MyTalk had this feature too, but recently they disabled it for payphone use - which was the only time I really needed it. *sigh* Hopefully, TellMe will keep this running for a while (though I doubt it).
   
   

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   Alexander Bethencourt, 24 Jun 2000 @ 9:06am

   
   

   Re: Not impressed

   Hola Ryan, espero ya estes en los finales para venir a Florida, yo como siempre mirando en dirt tech yo encuentro esta pagina muy interesante, ya que siempre me ha enteresado la tecnologia, estas haciendo muy bien, espero que con tu amigo todo vaya bien, pero si no recuerda que aqui siempre tienes tu casa y puede ser que en Fisher Island, te pueda conseguir algo, muchos abrazos y suerte. Recuerdo de Alejandra, Nieves y yo Cuidate mucho

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