Scottish Elevator - Voice Recognition - ELEVEN !

Noel N · 3.9M views · 2010-09-05 · 3:36

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Overview

A sketch from the Scottish comedy show Burnistoun in which two men cannot get a voice-recognition elevator to understand the word eleven in their accents.

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Used as a joke whenever voice interfaces and accents come up, and shared as a Scottish comedy sample.

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Topics

Stand-up & sketch comedy Computer vision, speech & NLP Satire & parody

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bambax · 2022-08 · Joke / meme
> We take a voice-first approach That sounds like a nightmare. So you have to forcibly silence everyone in the car to do anything? Even if I'm alone I would prefer silence and pushing buttons instead of having a conversation with a machine. Obligatory reference, if you haven't seen it: Scottish Elevator: [VIDEO]
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aidenn0 · 2022-05 · Joke / meme
Two reasons to resist using voice commands 1. Do not want to talk in the loud-clear voice needed for them to work (e.g. someone else in car is on their phone, kids are sleeping). 2. Completely soured on the experience due to things like this[1] 1: [VIDEO]
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me_smith · 2022-05 · Joke / meme
Had to look up the skit. Thank you for the laugh. The link for those wishing to watch and skip a google search: [VIDEO]
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