Another Botheration
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:26 pm
Pre s. I always thought Chuck Berry - he was quite a wordsmith - coined that word, but it’s in the OED, going back well over two hundred years.
I periodically check a few automated phone lines for credit card or other kinds of balances. They’ve always been natural-sounding.
Lately, a couple are using that annoying robot-ish voice.
I don’t know enough about this kind of tech to have an informed opinion as to whether it’s more efficient or cheaper, but I suspect someone thinks it sounds more high tech, modern.
Look at the design of US coins for another example of the perils
of modernization.
I periodically check a few automated phone lines for credit card or other kinds of balances. They’ve always been natural-sounding.
Lately, a couple are using that annoying robot-ish voice.
I don’t know enough about this kind of tech to have an informed opinion as to whether it’s more efficient or cheaper, but I suspect someone thinks it sounds more high tech, modern.
Look at the design of US coins for another example of the perils
of modernization.