{"id":21629,"date":"2016-02-04T20:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T04:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/robot-voice-designed-to-annoy-telemarketers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:00:12","slug":"robot-voice-designed-to-annoy-telemarketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/robot-voice-designed-to-annoy-telemarketers","title":{"rendered":"Robot Voice Designed To Annoy Telemarketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-voice-designed-to-annoy-telemarketers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the solution that I been looking for to combat Telemarketers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>TEXAS (CBSNEWS.COM)<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve all been there \u2014 usually right at dinner time, the phone rings and you pick up only to find out that you have now been roped into an unwanted conversation with a telemarketer. Have you ever wanted to give them a taste of their own medicine? Well, now, a developer is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to turn the tables and annoy those pesky callers.<\/p>\n<p>The Jolly Roger Telephone Co., from developer Roger Anderson, is a robot voice that answers with \u201chello?\u201d and keeps the conversation going. When you get a telemarketing call, you manually conference in the robot and then go on about your life. It stays on the line and any time it senses a moment of silence in the conversation, the robot voice jumps in and fills the gap with generic responses like \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cright\u201d or \u201chang on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his blog, Anderson has posted recordings of robot vs. telemarketer phone calls. Some of the humans catch on quicker than others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2016\/02\/04\/robot-voice-designed-to-annoy-telemarketers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the solution that I been looking for to combat Telemarketers. TEXAS (CBSNEWS.COM) \u2013 We\u2019ve all been there \u2014 usually right at dinner time, the phone rings and you pick up only to find out that you have now been roped into an unwanted conversation with a telemarketer. Have you ever wanted to give them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63016,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions\/63016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}