These include weather, currency translation, voice dialing and texting, nutrition, music, navigation and directions, reference, video search, unit conversion, word and phrase translation, and sports scores.
Historically the most common device to produce such pulse trains is the rotary dial of the telephone, lending the technology another name, rotary dialing.
If it typically takes 10 seconds for someone to pick up, and conversations typically last 90 seconds, a predictive dialer might start dialing at 80 seconds.
