Speech user interface nemanja on 24 Jun 2008 11:57 am
Experience with DELL’s spoken dialog system
Hello ecebloggers,
A week ago I bought a laptop on DELL’s web site. After some difficulties I had experienced with their sales department I decided to call them and see what’s happening. Of course I ended up on their dialog system. I was asked to choose between “Home, Home office and business”. I said business and the system understood me. After answering a series of questions (”Are you calling about a recent purchase?” “Was the purchase made today?”…) I finally ended up with a simple “Yes or No” option. I had to repeat “No” several times before the system finally understood my “No!”. After all the trouble I went trough I landed in technical support! Wow, I didn’t expect that at all. I have no idea what happened because I answered all the questions but still didn’t end up where I wanted. Luckily the customer representative was very helpful and he answered my questions because he understood me, unlike DELL’s dialog system.
Hope you don’t go trough the same trouble as me (if you decide to buy a DELL).
Have a good one,
Nemanja Memarovic

on 24 Jun 2008 at 12:47 pm 1.RichardatDELL said …
Hi Nemanja
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Sorry about the experience you had with the routing system, glad to learn oour customer rep who you spoke with was able to sort things out for you.
We are following up on this to see where the problem might be and wanted to thank yoou for letting us know.