Swedes use Europe's first completely automatic directory enquiries service
Swedes use Europe's first completely automatic directory enquiries service - 200 000 calls to the service which has been introduced without publicity - Europe's first fully automatic directory enquiries service, which the Swedish telephone company Telia introduced without publicity apart from a press release on January 11, has received 200 000 calls from Swedes in the first month. The "talking telephone directory" is a machine which recognizes the pronunciation of all of the names of persons and places in Sweden and answers by reading the telephone number aloud. The Respons AB company is a