Voice Portals
The value-adding features of voice portals are limitless as they host a multitude of applications of informative and/or entertaining nature. With the most natural and quick way and their voice as their exclusive communication means, voice portal users easily access the services that interest them. Call waiting is totally eliminated and access to information and entertainment is possible 24/7, from any location, through telephone and voice commands only. Voice portals may host a variety of applications:
- Information services concerning:
- TV, cinemas and theatres program
- Public organizations, banks and other businesses’ addresses, contact information, working hours and other useful data
- Pharmacies staying open all night
- Lucky games and lotteries (e.g. announcement of the winning numbers)
- Football games, horse racing and other competitions’ results
- Weather forecasts
- News reports
- Stock Exchange news
- Horoscopes
- Scheduled itineraries (for flights, ferries and trains)
- Entertainment:
- Speech empowered games between callers and the system
- Personal applications:
- E-mail access combined with the possibility to read and send messages
- Personal calendar (registering appointments, notifications on meetings or important events etc)
Dialogos has deployed and implemented the first voice portal in Greece for Cosmote mobile telecommunications company.
Cosmote offers information and entertainment services to its subscribers through its voice portal, MyCosmos. MyCosmos portal is accessible by calling 14000 from a Cosmote subscribed mobile phone. The applications it offers cover the following fields: Athens Stock Exchange information, scheduled (ferries and flights) itineraries, entertainment (TV, cinemas and theatres program), horoscopes and amusing games (blackjack, personality tests, fortune-telling for lovers, quiz).