标题: 好文共享：Yahoo By Phone 电话雅虎行 [打印本页] 作者: 幽幽草 时间: 2007-4-5 17:07 标题: 好文共享：Yahoo By Phone 电话雅虎行
Do you Yahoo? If you don’t, Yahoo is making it easier to check your email. Especially when you’re on the go.
你上雅虎网吗？如果没有，雅虎正在努力使你检查邮件更方便。尤其是当你忙个不停的时候。
“To learn more about Yahoo by phone, press zero.”
“电话了解雅虎更多信息请拨零。”
It’s called “Yahoo! by phone”. The idea you don’t have to have a computer to access to Internet. Forget a mouse click. All you need is a touch tone. Several small companies like Tell-me and BeVocal have already launched similar systems that use voice portals. Yahoo’s offers email.
“they can listen to stock quotes, they can listen to news, they can listen to sports scores and they can listen to weather.”
“他们可以听股票报价，可以听新闻报道，还可以听体育赛事和天气预报”
Lisa Pollack is the project’s senior producer. She said this new technology which turns text into synthesized speech, is helping to bridge the digital divide.
莉萨·波洛克是该项目的高级设计师。她说这种把正文转成合成语言的新技术有助于解决数字信号的划分问题。
“nearly everyone has a phone, there are more people that have telephones than have PCs. And this is just one way for us to make people to access their information. Let’s say you’re expecting a good message from a good friend of yours, that you’re may be going to meet her for dinner. And you think she might have tried to contract you by email. Well you call in and listen to your email.
And she says you don’t have to be computer savvy to use it. Here’s is how it works. Just dial 1800-myYahoo, punch in your code and listen.
