Chad Keifer
Tim Hergert
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@cjust tagging in @pluralistic 🙃
Tom Isaacson@cjust “Slightly unusual accent”. If we’re still fucking around with speech recognition in the 23rd century even though Data exists then WTF are we doing?
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⛧⛧⛧J.d.B.⛧⛧⛧@cjust I'm building a home assistant system with a wake word COMPUTER said in a loud and strict voice this autumn. Just waiting for that one product with good mics to come to the market.
It will not work by just saying computer, it has to be said as COMPUTER!
It will not work by just saying computer, it has to be said as COMPUTER!
Brian MacDonald@cjust I like to believe that Picard intended to create a macro for that replicator, and he was really going to get around to it just as soon as he got a spare minute, honest.
Natsura 
@cjust better a live ocelot than a living, functual borg drone tbqh
erinaceus@cjust The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy circumvents this problem with the Nutrimatic. It scans your taste buds, discards the results and produces a liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
I does have a voice interface, but you should not use it because it may completely block your ship's main computer and thereby leave you defenseless for Vogon attacks.
sunflowerinrain@cjust I wanted to share a link to a clip of Seymour Utterthwaite and his voice-operated front door (spoiler: locked out of his house, increasingly frantic as he shouts the command in many many different ways), but didn't find it. You get the idea, though.
#LastOfTheSummerWine
#LastOfTheSummerWine
Black Chic with the Red Truck@cjust
Is this how Data ended up with that cat? 🤔
Is this how Data ended up with that cat? 🤔
@ReneeWestberry I'm not sure - but I am now imagining a battered and scratched Captain Picard looking at a certain BABOU and saying "You fox-eared asshole" with an English accent.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@cjust I'm now thinking about Arthur Dent on the Starship Heart of Gold asking the machine for a cup of tea.
In my head it's like "Tea is an infusion of dead vegetation in boiled water, with juice squirted out of a cow, with other sweet veggie juices added to taste.”
Sadly don't have the original audio on my phone.
paul“No,” Arthur said, “look, it’s very, very simple…. All I want… is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Now keep quiet and listen.”
And he sat. He told the Nutro-Matic about India, he told it about China, he told it about Ceylon. He told it about broad leaves drying in the sun. He told it about silver teapots. He told it about summer afternoons on the lawn. He told it about putting the milk in before the tea so it wouldn’t get scalded. He even told it (briefly) about the East India Trading Company.
“So that’s it, is it?” said the Nutro-Matic when he had finished.
“Yes,” said Arthur. “That is what I want.”
“You want the taste of dried leaves boiled in water?”
“Er, yes. With milk.”
“Squirted out of a cow?”
“Well in a manner of speaking, I suppose…”
“I’m going to need some help with this one.”
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
@amiserabilist @cjust Thank you for the elucidation!
I'm envious of the char limit!
However there is sometimes a joy in crafting a response in order to perfectly fit the 512 char thing - not one char more or less.
Obvs, not in this case :)
Stoneface Vimes@cjust funny coincidence. I requested "tea, earl grey, hot" with a slightly clumsy cadence and next day an ocelot arrived at my house.
Ursa