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[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Ask Jeeves was doing this before Google existed…

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Wonder if there a way bring any of these types of services back and be affordable? Like the part of chatting with older people. There are lots of old people in this world who would love to have some to talk with.

[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago

GOOG-411 was created specifically for Google to gather voice samples, with different ages, accents, etc. to train voice recognition. It was never for the sake of providing a service.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Not talking about that one. The article mention multiple different types of platforms.

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