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The future of "cyborg telemarketers"

12/20/13

The future of telemarketing is here, and it’s kind of creepy. An increasingly popular technique is to have call center agents press buttons to play prerecorded audio, instead of talking to you themselves. This removes all of the guesswork, the nuances of normal human speech, and of course the accents. Weird!

Image courtesy Flickr/Costa Rica's Call Center