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Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Lift

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Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Lift

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.

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

5 Hacker News mentions · 2020–2023

Topics

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

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