VoIP spam voicemail is "next big thing"

According to this article, the next big thing is going to be sending Viagra and that sort of spam to your VoIP voicemail system (which has e-mail accessible features).

What? You say you don't currently have VoIP or even know what it is? Join the crowd. Currently less than 1 million people actually use a VoIP system, but it is considered to be the next step in the phone world, and many people are rapidly switching due to the many features and low costs.

Whew, sure am glad that there is yet another way for ads to reach me.

They should be able to write an engine that does voice recognition on the file and then do essentially the same Bayesian analysis and the like on it for the voicemails as they can on the rest.
I would imagine the first step would be FFT on the file and from there sorting out the components - but that will still require 1) a lot of data being processed while it learns, and 2) a human will have to say spam/ham for it to learn what they want.

Hmm - perhaps I should step in and fill this market niche now while there is essentially nobody else doing it that I know of?

Posted by Eric at August 10, 2004 09:07 AM | TrackBack