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Automated Telephone Services

2006-01-09, 9:21 AM #1

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Just saw this pretty cool segment on a TV show, on how to confuse automated phone responses to get through to a human as quickly as possible, a quick google allowed me to stumble across this list of techniques to talk to a person as quickly as possible, shame theres nothing for my country.

http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/

2006-01-09, 9:24 AM #2

Rob

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AWESOME.

God could I have ever used some of that info a week ago.

2006-01-09, 10:03 AM #3

Darkjedibob

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*bookmarks*

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2006-01-09, 10:23 AM #4

maevie

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awesome idea, but yeah, shame there's no english version.

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2006-01-09, 10:31 AM #5

Detty

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seen it before but didn't care because it's not britlandish

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2006-01-09, 10:35 AM #6

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the programme i saw it on said they were gonna compile a british one.

2006-01-09, 12:25 PM #7

Cool Matty

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Originally posted by maevie:

awesome idea, but yeah, shame there's no english version.

They do, there's just not much on it:

http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/uk/