A dead-simple speech recognition Response Point

 

 eWeek's Andrew Garcia has reviewed Microsoft's VoIP Response Point system, and writes that among other things, it contains "brain dead simple" speech recognition!

 Via eWeek:"Additionally, the system can be used to answer certain common real language questions automatically. For instance, Response Point will tell incoming callers the office hours, whether they ask "What are your hours?" or "What time are you open?" or numerous other variations of that and a couple other questions."

 Bill Gates noted at CES 2008 the next decade would mark the arrival of very natural user interfaces.. and we believe this is just one of many watermarks along the way.