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by hypnoscripto 1836 days ago
Like in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. Poorly paid actors in boxes acting as voice assistants.
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Similar to what the company Spinvox used to do. Artificial Artificial Intelligence, they would break up audio recordings and have different people transcribe them, then piece the transcriptions together. They sold the service to wireless companies so customers could get automatic voicemail transcription.