AOL Moviefone Enhances Popular Phone Service in Philadelphia With Speech Recognition Capabilities.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2001 Mr. Moviefone Joins Seinfeld's Kramer in Saying, "Why Don't You Just Tell Me the Name of the Movie You'd Like to See?" Philadelphia moviegoers calling AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Moviefone, the nation's leading movie information and ticketing service, are now able to get movie listings and tickets faster and easier than ever by simply speaking into the phone. AOL Moviefone today announced that it has enhanced its popular interactive telephone service, 222-FILM, with speech recognition technology. Moviegoers in the Philadelphia area now can use their own voice to speak to the well-known and frequently imitated voice of the service, Mr. Moviefone ("Hello and Welcome to AOL Moviefone!"). In fact, they can do as Seinfeld's Kramer once suggested in one of the show's most memorable episodes. In the episode, Kramer's phone number is changed to one that is confusingly similar confusingly similar adj. in the law of trade marks, when a trade mark, logo or business name is so close to that of a pre-existing trade mark, logo or name that the public might mis-identify the new one with the old trade mark, logo or name. to 222-FILM, and he imitates Mr. Moviefone to provide unsuspecting callers with movie information. When he is unable to understand their touch-tone entries he asks, "Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you'd like to see?" Now moviegoers can do just that. Since Moviefone's inception in 1989, callers have made selections using the buttons on their touch-tone keypad A small keyboard or supplementary keyboard keys; for example, the keys on a calculator or the number/cursor cluster on a computer keyboard. See programmable keypad. . The enhanced Moviefone service now enables moviegoers to select a movie or enter additional information, such as their zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. or credit card number, by speaking into the phone. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Tommy McGloin, senior vice president and general manager at AOL Moviefone, "Our speech recognition feature has generated a great deal of excitement with moviegoers in cities across the country. People love voice recognition because we simultaneously make Moviefone easier to use and present a more fun and entertaining service. We're sure that moviegoers in Philadelphia will love this new feature as well." About AOL Moviefone AOL Moviefone, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AOL Inc., is the leader in providing online, telephone and wireless movie listings, information, and ticketing to consumers anytime, anywhere. Through its online service Moviefone.com, its 777-FILM telephone service, and numerous wireless devices, including Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. phones, AT&T PocketNet, and Palm handheld computers A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. , the company serves one in every five U.S. moviegoers each week with a complete, free directory of movies, showtimes, theater locations, the ability to purchase tickets, and other content of interest to moviegoers. AOL Moviefone is a part of the AOL Interactive Properties Group. |
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