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Scott Jones, ChaCha founder, the former MIT research scientist kept a futon under his desk so commuting would not deter him from developing the patents that would, in the 1980s, make computerized voice mall as essential to telecom as the dial tone. ChaCha may not be the next big thing, but it resemb...

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Published in:Fast company 2006-11 (110), p.55
Main Author: West, Evan
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Jones, Scott A
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Voice response technology
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Summary:Scott Jones, ChaCha founder, the former MIT research scientist kept a futon under his desk so commuting would not deter him from developing the patents that would, in the 1980s, make computerized voice mall as essential to telecom as the dial tone. ChaCha may not be the next big thing, but it resembles Jones's first big score in one regard. While competing voice-mail inventors attempted the enormous task of perfecting voice-recognition technology, Jones stock with basic voice recording. Similarly, while the brains at Google labor to make computers smarter, ChaCha relies on a machines that is pretty smart already: the human brain.
ISSN:1085-9241
1943-2623