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Man hacked his Alexa to speak out of a singing fish, and it's horrifying
- nwrk 10y ago+1
- knoepfle 10y agoThat's not horrifying, that's awesome. But the clickbait title got me to look at it, so I shouldn't criticize.
- ohadron 10y agoThat's actually great user experience and I'm certain someone will make a product with a similar idea (physical movement that signifies the bot is listening and talking).
- lowmagnet 10y agoI watch it over and over just for the fish lifting its head and mouthing "blodoop". For some reason, this is infinitely entertaining.
- bayonetz 10y agoAFIK, Alexa doesn't have an API the gives speech timing info. I assume this must monitor the sound and trigger a mouth movement whenever the wave amplitude goes over a certain threshold. Would be cool to make a reusable monitor/trigger component along with different swappable animatronic figures (cats, ardvarks, Trump's head, ...). I'd buy one for the office.
- joesmo 10y agoWould have been nice if the video wasn't in a walled garden.
- schiffern 10y agoHorrifying and/or hilarious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBqiW1R5_JM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBqiW1R5_JM
- nunez 10y agoFinally Billy the Big Mouth Bass has a purpose in life
- yladiz 10y agoAs an aside, I find Alexa's voice much better than either Google Now or Siri. It still sounds a bit robotic, but it feels quite soothing compared to the harsh Google Voice or the "too robotic" Siri.