From: Karee Swift (karee@tstonramp.com)
Date: Sun Jan 07 2001 - 01:34:11 PST
Tell me is the free phone call provided its not from a payphone,
which to me, now seems irrelevant. I'd rather use the free service,
even if you dont' get your own 800 #, than go pay aol, or anythign
for that matter, for the same type of services provided. I think its
a matter of time before tellme has the voice reading of email. If you
want somethign that does, go to www.zdnetonebox.com -- and it will
read email to you, provided you have your mail forwarded to the site
to pick up. The voice rec isn't so hot, but it works.
-BB
--- In fork@egroups.com, Rasheed Baqai <rasheed@u...> wrote:
> I personally think others should try http://phone.yahoo.com
> (1-800-MY-Yahoo). I'm not willing to give more money to AOL.
>
> You can check and replay to email by phone and do other newsy
things via
> phone.
>
> TellMe is still the cool pure-play site (as mentioned by Adam and
Rohit
> previously). I think the 2 minute free call is still there too.
In their
> earlier days (a few months ago), they sent me a T-shirt for using
the
> service. How nice.
>
> Rasheed
>
> > From: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@l...>
> > To: <FoRK@x...>; <geeks@l...>
> >
> > > $4.95, 800 number, speech recognition (but not yet for
composing), fairly
> > good
> > > text to speech with reasonable inflection.
> > >
> > > Allows you to read your email (but not intelligent choices of
which
> > email),
> > > get weather, sports, headlines, shopping, and
interestingly 'phone call'.
> > >
> > > Weather was interesting because it somehow knew I was in Las
Vegas when I
> > > called with my Virginia mobile phone.
> > >
> > > 'Phone Call' allows you to make a 2 min call to anywhere, free,
while in
> > the
> > > middle of a browsing session. It offers to call the sender of
email.
> > (Didn't
> > > explore that yet.)
> > >
> > > Poor performance with interruption even though it invites you
to do so,
> > but I
> > > was mostly using speakerphone to demo it.
> > >
> > > To cover the long distance (i.e. 800 charges) including
payphone surcharge
> >
> > > ($0.30 as per FCC; they invite you to use it from payphones),
and the
> > outgoing
> > > phone calls (ok, LD is nominally $0.06/min now), along with the
capital
> > costs
> > > that will be needed to handle this for a large number of users,
this is
> > > reasonably impressive. I think it's cool for the
price/performance and
> > that
> > > AOL thinks it's now scalable enough to start selling with
popups. Anyone
> > know
> > > who's technology they're using?
> > >
> > > There seem to be many voice competitors suddenly.
> > >
> > > sdw
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