• By theodp
    May 14, 2008 5:40 PM 939
    read more: #badideas, #voicexml, #hewlettpackard, #hp, #patents, #valleywag

    Robotic voices to express HP's disgust with customers

    Its pretexting heyday may be over, but HP is apparently still not adverse to a little telephone trickery, as its pending patent for Text-to-Speech Conversion with Associated Mood Tag shows. In it, HP touts the use of VoiceXML to have a fake 18-year-old salesgirl register her disgust with customers who don't respond to offers.


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