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.-- FlyingToaster, Sep 28 2010 Teddy_20AI [FlyingToaster, Sep 28 2010] Reading Parrot http://www.gurney.c...parrots/origin.htmlthe only parrot sanctuary in and around the Berkshire area [pocmloc, Sep 28 2010] Get away with you, it'll just repeat things back at you, without understanding any context or inflection!-- infidel, Sep 28 2010 You mean like a network news anchor?-- doctorremulac3, Sep 28 2010 A reader without an opinion, IOW. Perfect. (*Some* training required.) [+]-- Boomershine, Sep 28 2010 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)-- xandram, Sep 28 2010 We thought this idea would be about brightly coloured birds from mid-Berkshire ...-- 8th of 7, Sep 28 2010 meant as a language appendage: an artificial brain if you will. Fake bird makes you look like a pirate with a parrot.-- FlyingToaster, Sep 28 2010 [xandram]//but they don't read. [-]//
Yet. I couldn't read at first, either. Now I won't have to.-- Boomershine, Sep 28 2010 Hold on [xandram], they are //faux birds// - so I'm guessing it'sa dummy that is rigged with vision & text recognition systems.-- Jinbish, Sep 28 2010 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)-- xandram, Sep 28 2010 Why do you have a fishbone in your parrot ? Parrots don't eat fish.-- 8th of 7, Sep 28 2010 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.
Dang French/English packaging.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 29 2010 Obviously something lost in the translation from Belgian ...-- 8th of 7, Sep 29 2010 Lock 'im away in one of the 'little grey cells'.
Fair enough, [xandram], we can stop holding on now...-- Jinbish, Sep 29 2010 I actually like the idea of a *language appendage* but real pirates wouldn't be caught dead with a fake parrot!!-- xandram, Sep 29 2010 [xandram] Oh, but *ironical* pirates would.-- mouseposture, Sep 29 2010 They'd also have fake gold.-- Jinbish, Sep 30 2010 You mean, pound coins, for example?-- pocmloc, Sep 30 2010 the 'crackers' might be data disks, perhaps whole novels or the papers one need fill out for a proper visa.-- dentworth, Sep 30 2010 Do pirates have fake visas? Or do they just skim other people's Visas?-- infidel, Sep 30 2010 random, halfbakery