If you read my blog at all, you probably already know of the fun I have with an audio recorder and the Speech Analysis feature of Adobe Soundbooth. I record common everyday things and let Soundbooth try to figure out what it is saying if it were a human voice. Well this time I recorded my dishwasher. Here’s what it had to say:
A,
the likelihood of your,
your your,
your book,
Good book.
Toure you know,
a write a.
(Note, all I’ve edited in the direct speech translation was the removal of duplicate words, and I added the punctuation)
Interestingly, Toure is an American writer! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toure. So apparently my dishwasher is recommending novels. I just haven’t been listening.
Thanks to hackers, it has come to this. Windows 7 has to ask me if I trust my printer:
Well, I’m not sure if I trust my printer. It’s never stolen my money before, or verbally abused me. But it does run out of ink suspiciously fast, so maybe it’s cheating on me with some other user!? I’m just so conflicted.
I got bored over Thanksgiving weekend and built an “addition” to the cat tower. The cats were getting so big, they both couldn’t fit on the little top of the original tower anymore. The light-colored carpet is the original store-bought tower. I built the entire dark-carpet side from scratch. Overboard? Maybe. But they love it.
I got a call over the weekend from an old man asking for someone, and I told him he had the wrong number. Hours later I saw the same number calling me so I ignored it and he left me a message. Keep in mind that my message greeting clearly says my name is Shawn and clearly spells out my phone number. I guess he ignored that part.
Listen here:
Whaaa? A couple questions:
- Why was he staring at locks? Or is he referring to river locks?
- Was he calling for Jean or Freddy? Did he forget halfway through the message?
I kind of hope I get another message from him, at least to clear things up.
Google has a feature where it will automatically guess the search you are trying to make as you type in words. Well I simply typed the word “why” in the Google search box, and look at the results. Is Google playing a little practical joke on us? Try it out for yourself!
I received a “survey” from the Republican Party this week and I was appalled at what it said. Every question was not really a question but instead a scare tactic to incite the ignorant among us to give them money. If Republicans want to get back their offices, then instead of this crap, maybe they should ask honest questions of the American people and shape the party to match those views. But I guess that’s the hard way and scaring Americans is the easy way. Here are some example hopelessly skewed questions:
“Do you oppose Obama’s plan that would bring bureaucrats between doctors and patients?” Bull! Right now either you’re like several of my family and friends that don’t have any health care at all and are therefore screwed if something bad happens to them, or you’re like the rest of us that have a team of idiotic and extremely profit-oriented insurance workers between you and your doctor.
“If Barack Obama tries to gut the USA PATRIOT Act and other important laws that promote the safety and security…” Wow what a loaded question filled with crap. The Patriot Act takes away Americans rights and allows the government to listen to and torture whoever it wants to without the judicial branch being able to have its normal say. We need warrants backs and we need to stop crapping on our constitution. That entire Patriot Act is illegal and needs to die…now.
Then at the end of the survey, you get surprised with the question of either 1. Donating, or 2., having them throw out you survey because you “favor electing liberal Democrats over the next 10 years.” Shady, shady, shady.
Here’s the whole thing: Republican Survey
Two kitties have been added to the household! Welcome Mowgly and Kuma. Mowgly is a twist on the Jungle Book name and Kuma is a star in the Draco constellation. Here they are in action:
Mowgly fresh out of her box. She didn't come with an instruction manual.
Kuma is looking up fascinated at the fish tank. I think that tank will cause years of scheming.
Here’s round 4 of my Speech to Text fun. For those of you that didn’t read my previous posts #1, #2 and #3, the current version of Adobe Soundbooth comes with speech transcription, allowing you to take recorded spoken word and convert it into text. I wanted to know what it would do if I gave it a sound that wasn’t a voice. This time I recorded myself vacuuming. What did my vacuum have to say? This is exactly what came out (I added the line breaks):
Do we do it
you do Lulu
you look I the eye
I correct we do good
we I continued
do you
I do the youth
If I were to interpret poem, I’d say my vacuum is into a little dirty poetry!
Check out my videos page. I uploaded a new video for the first time in almost two years!
Maybe I should start a new artistic photographic series. I call this one: Futility
