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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by joezydeco on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:14PM (#46114841)
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.
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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by next_xibalba on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:21PM (#46114958)
I miss 411GOOG. It was fun and felt like a cool fusion of new and old tech.
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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by nostrademons on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:32PM (#46115074)
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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