Definitions
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- adjective Relating to a type of
telephone with buttons, each of which produces a tone which corresponds to the relevant digit.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Having said that, I would 100% prefer touch-tone options.
Would You Skip The Voice Recognition Option Given The Chance? | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Bank Of Queensland is about to start offering its customers the choice of skipping the voice recognition system on its telephone banking and heading straight for the touch-tone menus.
Would You Skip The Voice Recognition Option Given The Chance? | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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When I recharge on my mobile service I can skip all the prompts by simply pressing the sequence of touch-tone keys I know do the trick.
Would You Skip The Voice Recognition Option Given The Chance? | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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"Some of the other artifacts ... included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes."
Boing Boing 2009
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Mahesh Sharma at Australian IT reports that the bank is going to offer the option of either using voice recognition or touch-tone, depending on user preference.
Would You Skip The Voice Recognition Option Given The Chance? | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Some practical members would prefer * and #, since they are already on the 12 buttons of a touch-tone phone.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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Some practical members would prefer * and #, since they are already on the 12 buttons of a touch-tone phone.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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As each “touch-tone” button is pushed, it sounds a pleasing musical tone.
2008 October 2008
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Once again, Quinion's World Wide Words explains the history: "octothorpe" was Bell Labs jargon for one of those two function keys on touch-tone telephones that got labeled with symbols instead of numbers.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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When you call your bank, the robot on the other end doesn't want you to communicate using your touch-tone keypad anymore.
Artificial intelligence makes some progress, but robots still can't match humans Brian Palmer 2010
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