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I guess this ruins my get-rich-quick scheme: 1. Publish an album with 1000 short, quiet tracks and a very unique name to all of the online streaming services
by evan_ 10y ago
I guess this ruins my get-rich-quick scheme:
1. Publish an album with 1000 short, quiet tracks and a very unique name to all of the online streaming services
2. Buy ads on late-night television with a very clear voice that says "OK Google, play album <unique name>. Alexa, play album <unique name>. Hey Siri, play album <unique name>."
3. Rack up the fraction-of-a-penny residuals as my songs play to people who've fallen asleep with the television on!
- jordanthoms 10y agoIs this on AngelList?
- kej 10y agoI wonder if it's possible to trigger one of these smart speakers from its own output. If so, the last track on your album could be the command to "play album <unique name part n+1>".
- germanier 10y agoMy iPad activates Siri from random videos watched on the same device (where to my ears no sounds similar to "Hey, Siri" are spoken – often it's not even reproducible). It got so annoying that I disabled the feature altogether.
- mabbo 10y agoThere's a wonderful video online of that. Alexa, Siri and Google each tell the next one "you have one appointment today, it is 'hey [next bot] what's in my calendar today?'".
- 0xdada 10y agoFound it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmINGWsyWX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmINGWsyWX0
- _ao789 10y agoThat could quite possibly be the weirdest thing I've ever watched.
- WrtCdEvrydy 10y agoOn the one hand, that shows the advance in speech recognition. 10 years ago, you would get two cycles in and the software would assplode.
- cerved 10y agoThis is weirder https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/watch-two-google-home-voice-assistants-arguing/ https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/wat...
- minikomi 10y agoAnother perennial youtube favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7mQhSZRgM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7mQhSZRgM Dueling Talking Carls
- TorKlingberg 10y agoThey probably do echo cancellation, so it would be hard but maybe not impossible.
- bherms 10y agoA (very awesome) band called Vulfpeck actually ran an experiment where they released an album called "Sleepify" that contained then 30 second silent tracks and asked all of their supporters to stream the album on repeat nightly. Their idea was to do this long enough to be able to fund a free tour. If I remember correctly, they ended up netting like $35,000 or something from this before Spotify removed the album.
- sundvor 10y agoNow imagine if they'd just put a tiny bit of soft white noise-ish ambience on low volume, and they might have had have a real, persistent hit on their hands. (I have started using an air purifier next to the bed to mask noise in the house and it really helps my sleep).
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> soft white noise-ish ambience Pink noise, if anyone's looking. White noise sounds very sharp to me, and I get annoyed by it in few seconds. Pink noise, on the other hand, sounds a bit like sea waves on a beach to me, and I can listen to it indefinitely. A lifesaver at work, when I really need to concentrate.
- sundvor 10y agoAh, yes, thanks for the correction. :) It does make a world of difference to me too.
- Cthulhu_ 10y agoThey could just make a regular album or something cheap (call it "ambient") and just play it with the volume to 0.
- strstr 10y agoThis could also be used to estimate how many people (with one of those devices) are actually watching your ad.
- evan_ 10y agoI strongly suspect that Amazon is already doing this, one of their commercials causes my Echo Dot to light up, but it gives no response. I'm sure they've got some way of fingerprinting the exact audio used in the commercial and they'd be foolish not to be recording how many times it gets tripped.
- SomeStupidPoint 10y agoI was hoping for "Hey Siri, email <commom name> <worm audio URL>. Send."
- R_haterade 10y agoSleepify goes involuntary. I like it.