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Is there any evidence this isn't fake?
by adrianm 10y ago
Is there any evidence this isn't fake?
- zyxley 10y agoWhy are you assuming it's fake? "Crows and ravens can imitate human voices" is an established fact, not an unusual claim.
- adrianm 10y agoI am skeptical of the specific video he linked, not of the well established fact that Raven's can vocalize.
- WalterBright 10y agoQuoth the raven "nevermore".
- slavik81 10y agoHe does sound a little like a voice synthesiser, but I think that's mostly because both birds and computers speak English poorly. Here's another example: https://youtu.be/AfsnHVaScjg https://youtu.be/AfsnHVaScjg
- adrianm 10y agoI understand that Raven's can vocalize, I am just skeptical of that original video you linked. I am just wondering if there was evidence that it was authentic since that Youtube user's videos seem to go so far beyond what I've seen Raven's do before.
- epidemian 10y agoI think he sounds like a voice synthesizer because the owner probably "trained" the raven to say nevermore by letting a computer program repeat that word occasionally over long periods of time. Thus he learned to mimic the synthesizer sound, not a real human saying it. You can also hear the bird repeat some notification sounds a "waka waka" sound that sounds like Pacman.
- s_kilk 10y agoRe: voice synth, I think that's just an artifact of how birds vocal chords (or whatever gizmo they've got in there) work. The timbre of the voice is going to be different than that of a primate. EDIT: you can even hear it in their natural calls, they have a buzzing, saw-like texture in the upper-mid and high range.
- RachelF 10y agoThe Australian lyrebird is perhaps the best bird mimic: https://youtu.be/KOFy8QkNWWs https://youtu.be/KOFy8QkNWWs