Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Lift

Burnistoun · 1.8M views · 2015-05-25 · 3:48

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Overview

A Burnistoun sketch in which a voice-recognition elevator cannot understand two Scottish men saying the number eleven. It satirizes voice interfaces that fail on accents.

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HN invokes it as the go-to joke whenever voice interfaces, speech recognition or natural-language UIs are discussed.

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Topics

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

What people said

pjc50 · 2023-01 · Joke / meme
Obligatory Burnistoun reference: [VIDEO] But I'd be interested to see what its reliability is like on various types of Scottish accent.
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Thoreandan · 2023-01 · Joke / meme
English was my mother's 5th language, I can relate to acting as interpreter for family. I'm reminded of the "Voice Recognition Lift" sketch from the Scottish comedy Burnistoun - [VIDEO]
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VBprogrammer · 2022-11 · Joke / meme
Not sure if you'll understand all the Scottishness here but I think you'll appreciate the message... [VIDEO]
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Video by Burnistoun, played through YouTube.

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