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- From: fisher@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- Subject: Caller ID
- Message-ID: <727740874.20602@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:14:35 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- keith@unipalm.co.uk writes (re. caller ID):
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- > However, it occurs to me that you don't need any of this technology at all -
- > all that is required is for a speech synthesiser to pre-announce the number
- > to you when you pick the phone up, well within the hardware capabilities of
- > System X etc.
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- This is what the 999 system does. The (e.g.) police operator hears a msg
- saying (e.g.): "This is York BT centre connecting you to York 123456".
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- At least I *think* the voice is synthesized - it sounded like it.
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- Tony Fisher
- Dept. of Computer Science, The University of York, York YO1 5DD, U.K.
- Tel. +44 904 432738 or 432722
- Internet: fisher@minster.york.ac.uk
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