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billybob2001 writes: "A report at the
BBC explains how voice-control of computers can be more successful using grunts and sighs, as "voice recognition programs often failed to accurately capture words". Dr Takeo Igarashi, of Brown University suggests the use of "ahhhh" for skipping tracks on a cd, or adjusting tv volume, but I wonder what the effect would be on pr0n sites? Another suggestion is "uh oh" for undo. Perfect for online banking. Is this going to confuse your system or what?"
Surely "Ah, shit!" is the obvious choice for an undo command?
Linux advocates are in a no Win situation
Now, whenever you yell you YIEEEE! in a shower because the water is too hot or cold, it will immediatly switch to a more pleasant temperature!
I dont think so.
What, me worry?
Just don't say Mua'dib or the computer explodes.
-He has the weirding way.
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
"Ooo eee ooo ah ah, ting tang walla walla, bing bang"
A line from "The Witch Doctor" by David Seville or voice command to shutdown Windows? Decide for yourself by playing it for your voice recognition software.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Its easier to recognize tonal changes than constanants. Its easier for humns to use full words than isolated vowels.
I spent the last ten minutes with a bad case of the hiccups. What do you think that would have done to my weekly report?
Now there is a whole new meaning to "Yada, yada, yada, ..."
Karma stuck at 50? Add 2-5 inches.. err.. 2-5x Karmas Count to your pen1es.. err.. Karma all naturally and private
After 30,000 years of having good comminucation skills, humans' finally revert to pre-historic communications skills. Their technology is responsible for thier de-cevilization. It seems a computer interface consisting of only grunts and primitive sounds was selected for windowsXP, and as a result the entire human vocabulary has reverted back to pre-historic roots.
Bill gates said "We are proud to be responsible for the conversion to a much easier language. While XML can organize our data better, we needed a common language for human interaction. Leveraging our power on the desktop, we we able to achive this." When asked about how aliens might perceive our change of language, Gates repsonded "I'm sure that they will appreciate the simplicity more. I mean, who ever liked French and all of it's eligance anyway?"
Grunt snort grr grr.
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Over the hills and far away, Teletubbies come to hack!
Eh-oh!
Uh-ehn! Uh-ehn!
Time for tubby shutdown...
Uh-oh...
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Be careful with this!
I can just see it now. You are recounting a traffic accident to a college:
You: "I rammed a sheriff!"
Computer: "Executing: rm -(dash)rf"
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
2020: Computers everywhere are controlled by grunts, moans, sighs, and snorts.
2040: Computers are finally small enough that they're all embedded into our environments, but neural interfaces don't work, so we still grunt and snort into our computers, but it looks like we're just grunting and snorting in general. People use computers exclusively, and never talk to one another; thus, language is lost and we just grunt and snort a lot.
2060: aliens visit hoping to find intelligent life, but instead find a bunch of snorting, grunting apes. They leave.
-- "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -Joseph Stalin
As a Boston-area resident, I'd like to suggest that this choice of sound wouldn't work for us:
"Hey paahl, gahhhttah go pahhk my caah." *CD skips 4 tracks*
You'd figure the guy works for a New England university, he might've picked up on that. How about "y'all" instead?
RW
Pick up the mike and say "Waaaaaazzaaaaaaaaaappp"
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour Isaiah 3:5
Clicks, wheezes, pops, random onscenities. Sounds like the way I interract with my computer NOW!
Steps to mess with your friends (or enemies)
1)Install this and set it up so that this starts up when windows does.
2) Set a sound to shutdown Windows
3) Record that sound and set it to play whenever windows starts or whenever there is an error.
4)loop the sound output into the input.
5) sit back and enjoy watching them turn on there computer only for it to grunt and turn off on them.
*note* Don't know if all of this would be possible but I just had to share this thought
-- Any comments seen here are not mine, but a mixture of alchohol and lack of sleep.
And during sex the entire house becomes a party place (lamp on, lamp off, hifi on , hifi off ....) a:D
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You could run the voice recognition system as a vital resource, so when the system crashes, you go "[Zarking] [buggering] [smegging] Windows!" and it installs Linux automatically. Good idea, right?