Google Duplex: A Bidirectional Conversation Generator

This is called Google Duplex, where duplex in this situation means bidirectional. So it's generating dialogue. The reason they started this apparently is because 60% for businesses in the US don't take online bookings and they only take it by voice. They've demonstrated this to show that it can be done A, interactively, and B, with these arms and earths, so it sounds like a human being. I demonstrated this to a group last night at a dinner party and they were absolutely astonished and there were several people who got it wrong. But how on earth are they doing this? Well, recognition has been around for 20 or 30 years and it's getting better