Free Voip calls...with a catch

[Lestan Gregor]

http://cbs2.com/kent_blog/local_blogentry_268102631.html

[ChrisT]

Just imagine all the bizzare ads that would pop up if it was listening to the bridge.

[Tachyon]

I doubt it would be able to hear anything through all the toners and bullshit.

[Moose-Alini]

The article mentions that it will display adds based on the content of the discussion. If this actually works at all I will be impressed. It wasn't long ago that voice recognition took hours to train to a single voice and then it still worked like ass. I seem to remember a thread on either UPL or old cal's where everyone used some recognition software and you couldn't get a cognizant sentence out of it.

Now, its still pretty shitty to use a skype ripoff that throws adds everywhere and databases all your calls. Obviously there is potential for abuse, but at what cost....

[Nod]

I can just see some retard and talking about bombs, guns, and drugs. I wonder what kind of adds it displays if you say "dirty bomb" or anthrax.

[Moose-Alini]

[Nod]

I bet if you say dirty bomb the pop-ups are ads for detergent of some sort. Anthrax would probably get you links to buy Anthrax (The band) songs off of iTunes or something.

[mr_doc]

I bet if you say dirty bomb the pop-ups are ads for detergent of some sort. Anthrax would probably get you links to buy Anthrax (The band) songs off of iTunes or something.

And then a white panel van parks across the street from your house for a few days.

[Tachyon]

That's the church's van, it's always parked there!

[rbcp]

Of course it's always parked there.  We always listen to you.