TO HEAR MORE ADS, PRESS ONE : VOICE PORTALS ARE AN ALLURING NEW MEDIUM, IF ADVERTISERS CAN KEEP PEOPLE ON LINE

Through a new breed of services called voice portals, one can access the Internet by talking on the phone. The portals use speech recognition technology to process spoken words into text commands, retrieve data from the Internet, and ultimately read it back to the caller. Although the service is free, the disadvantages in using voice portals is that users will be subjected to listening to commercial advertisements.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: May 15, 2000 Remarks: Photocopy of article from website of The standard in PATH Binder 8
• Authors:
  • Hamilton, Andrea
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 4 p.
• Serial:
  • The standard : intelligence for the Internet economy [online]

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Internet; News; Speech synthesis
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00793454
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Jun 13 2000 12:00AM