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Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Elevator in Scotland

VideoFunStation · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Stand-up & sketch comedySatire & parodyComputer vision, speech & NLP

What it is

A Burnistoun sketch from BBC Scotland in which two men try to use a voice-recognition elevator that cannot understand their Scottish accents.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Posted as the obligatory joke in any thread about speech recognition, and recommended in a thread on what makes people laugh.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “I have regularly thrown laughing fits over this.”

    Scottish sketch comedy that causes laughing fits

    sdruskat, 2018-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What you watch to laugh?”

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Topics: burnistoun, sketch comedy, speech recognition, scottish accent, elevator

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