From entry Phone Slave in glossary Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms
Phone Slave was an early envisionment that used state of the art speech processing in the 1980s to show how an telephone answering machine could be transformed. It prefigured many of the issues of speech-based interfaces such as how to avoid accidentally invoking commands when talking to other people in the environment.
Used in Chap. 8: page 114
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YouTube: Phone Slave (Work In Progress)