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Text-to-speech faux birds for people who can't or won't read the language of the culture they find themselves in. For such things as signage and menus.
Teddy_20AI
[FlyingToaster, Sep 28 2010]
Reading Parrot
http://www.gurney.c...parrots/origin.html
the only parrot sanctuary in and around the Berkshire area [pocmloc, Sep 28 2010]
[link]
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Get away with you, it'll just repeat things back at
you, without understanding any context or
inflection! |
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You mean like a network news anchor? |
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A reader without an opinion, IOW. Perfect. (*Some*
training required.) [+] |
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WIBN if parrots could read? They could read a book to your child when you just feel like having a beer, or read when you don't feel like putting on your glasses, or read for blind people...but they don't read. [-]
(not really understanding the category either) |
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We thought this idea would be about brightly coloured birds from mid-Berkshire ... |
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meant as a language appendage: an artificial brain if you will. Fake bird makes you look like a pirate with a parrot. |
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[xandram]//but they don't read. [-]// |
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Yet. I couldn't read at first, either. Now I won't have
to. |
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Hold on [xandram], they are //faux birds// - so I'm guessing it'sa dummy that is rigged with vision & text recognition systems. |
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Hold on [jinbish] - I did not see *faux* in there before my anno--nor did I see the last sentence. I think the post has been edited...(only my parrot will know for sure, so I will remove the fishbone) |
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Why do you have a fishbone in your parrot ? Parrots don't eat fish. |
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I think mine's broken. It only translates Agatha Christie novels... no wait, uh my bad, says right here on the box that it's a Reading Poirot. |
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Dang French/English packaging. |
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Obviously something lost in the translation from Belgian ... |
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Lock 'im away in one of the 'little grey cells'. |
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Fair enough, [xandram], we can stop holding on now... |
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I actually like the idea of a *language appendage* but real pirates wouldn't be caught dead with a fake parrot!! |
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[xandram] Oh, but *ironical* pirates would. |
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They'd also have fake gold. |
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You mean, pound coins, for example? |
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the 'crackers' might be data disks, perhaps whole novels or the papers one need fill out for a proper visa. |
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Do pirates have fake visas? Or do they just skim other people's Visas? |
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