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anumanlok

Interactive Voice Response System, Data Phone, Bhojpuri/Hindi
2023

anumanlok, colloquially translates to guess-wor(/)d; though anuman can also mean ‘inference’


During the month of August 2023, people dialed a phone number to listen, and interact with anumanlok. Like any other IVR, listeners navigated the complex structure an interdependent text, by pressing numbers on their keypad.