I called one of the new numbers she had called and a machine answered the call with her voice.

The machine answers back almost immediately with an empty prompt, meaning that the search failed.

He tried two more, and hung up on both when the machines answered.

Mark's machine answered after the second ring, and I started to hang up but found myself mesmerized by his voice.

The machines would answer their questions and so would he.

I was about to disconnect when a machine answered.

But the Government, like many businesses today, finds that it's cheaper to use machines to answer questions.

This machine will answer your question, though, if it's fixed.

"Twenty years ago, people got peeved if a machine answered the phone," he said.

The scientists believe that, like a cable box with new channels, the machine can answer more and more questions.