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		joezydeco 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Giannandrea to retire from Apple I remember Tellme. They had an 800 number for free information via speech query but, of course, it was also for training ala 411GOOG. Fun times.

next_xibalba 11 days ago [–]

I miss 411GOOG. It was fun and felt like a cool fusion of new and old tech.

nostrademons 11 days ago | [–]

Its purpose was to get training data for speech recognition. Once Google’s speech recognition was working reliably, there wasn’t much reason to offer the service got free.

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