Sometimes, slogging through bloated Web sites to find a piece of information can make you wonder whether all the clicking and typing are worth the trouble. Wouldn't it be nice just to ask a question out loud, have the computer fetch the nugget of data you request, and then recite it back to you in plain English? That's what you get from an experimental system that Naperville, Ill.-based Spyglass has devised in collaboration with Lucent Technologies.

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