Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Elevator in Scotland

VideoFunStation · 3.4M views · 2011-09-07 · 3:37

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Overview

A Burnistoun sketch from BBC Scotland in which two men try to use a voice-recognition elevator that cannot understand their Scottish accents.

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Posted as the obligatory joke in any thread about speech recognition, and recommended in a thread on what makes people laugh.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2015–2018

Topics

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

What people said

sdruskat · 2018-05 · Strong recommendation
- Burnistoun (sample here: [VIDEO] , [LINK] ): I have regularly thrown laughing fits over this. - Hardy Bucks ( [LINK] , [LINK] ) Tech-wise, Silicon Valley I think is funny esp. the earlier series.
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pjc50 · 2017-10 · Joke / meme
Obligatory "voice recognition lift in Scotland" comedy sketch: [VIDEO] Personally I've had to "translate" between a South African and an Ulsterman before, both of whom were speaking English but with extremely different accents.
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pjc50 · 2016-09 · Joke / meme
Obligatory Burnistoun: [VIDEO] I thought most people would be able to get written Scots dialect, but I did struggle with Walter Scott's Rob Roy where one of the characters speaks it phonetically. There's also a guy doing a newspaper column in Scots in The National, causing quite a bit of controversy. Spoken language is another matter. I've had to interpret between an Ulsterman and an Afrikaaner both of whom were nominally speaking English as a first language.
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