An Automatic Call Distributor, usually located in a central office and supplied to the customer by the telephone company with tariffed pricing structures.

自动呼叫分配器，通常位于市话局，由电话公司提供给客户并对定价体系进行征税。

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The telephone-equipment companies want voice dialling (useful in cars), automatic call-centres, computerised operator-services and messaging that allows users to pick up and send e-mails and faxes on an ordinary telephone anywhere in the world.

ECONOMIST: Can machines talk? From next month they will