3 ms·

"I am altering the route. Pray I do not alter it any further. Or, tap 'no thanks' to stay on the current route."

echelon 4y ago
https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:qv34ck4p1y495bdxhr7q4k0acy6kk https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:qv34ck4p1y495bdxhr7q4k0acy... I think the vocoder on this one is a bit off, but these are so trivial to make.
SanjayMehta 4y ago
Long long ago, in a Garmin far far away: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/darth-vader-voice-for-garmin-directions/index.htm https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/darth-vader...
gibspaulding 4y ago
Off topic, but does this drive anyone else crazy? Why is changing my route opt out rather than opt in. As far as I can tell there's not even a setting to change that.
- blamazon 4y ago
  I'm with you. There is no setting. This drives me nuts on my motorcycle. I pick the nice scenic route, put the device into my pocket, (Bluetooth speakers in helmet) and then halfway through my very zen ride, this happens and I can do nothing but rage internally and try to remember to pull over and fix it, only for it to happen again 30 minutes later. Google: you know I'm on a motorcycle. I see that on my location timeline page and marvel at the sophistication of technology. Please for the love of god if you won't give us a simple toggle for this behavior (I know you won't) just take the technology a tiny step farther and don't do this opt-out route changing thing if you detect I'm on a motorcycle.
  - dTal 4y ago
    How does it know you're on a motorcycle? I can imagine that it would be possible to detect fairly reliably with smartphone sensors (correlate curved ground path with gyro tilt), but it's astonishing and frightening that they would put in the effort to go that far.
    - SanjayMehta 4y ago
      Some 4-5 years ago someone analyzed an Android phone and showed they even know when you've exited a car. I'll update this comment with a link when I find it.
    - blamazon 4y ago
      I think you pretty much described the mechanism there. My friends and I have experimented with "riding like a car" and we can trick the algorithm for short distances if we really think about keeping the phone upright. The keywords to learn more seem to be "activity recognition API" and I'm pretty sure they have been doing the motorcycle thing for the better part of a decade: https://developers.google.com/location-context/activity-recognition https://developers.google.com/location-context/activity-reco...

https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:qv34ck4p1y495bdxhr7q4k0acy6kk https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:qv34ck4p1y495bdxhr7q4k0acy... I think the vocoder on this one is a bit off, but these are so trivial to make.

SanjayMehta 4y ago

Long long ago, in a Garmin far far away: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/darth-vader-voice-for-garmin-directions/index.htm https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/darth-vader...

gibspaulding 4y ago

Off topic, but does this drive anyone else crazy? Why is changing my route opt out rather than opt in. As far as I can tell there's not even a setting to change that.

blamazon 4y ago
I'm with you. There is no setting. This drives me nuts on my motorcycle. I pick the nice scenic route, put the device into my pocket, (Bluetooth speakers in helmet) and then halfway through my very zen ride, this happens and I can do nothing but rage internally and try to remember to pull over and fix it, only for it to happen again 30 minutes later. Google: you know I'm on a motorcycle. I see that on my location timeline page and marvel at the sophistication of technology. Please for the love of god if you won't give us a simple toggle for this behavior (I know you won't) just take the technology a tiny step farther and don't do this opt-out route changing thing if you detect I'm on a motorcycle.
- dTal 4y ago
  How does it know you're on a motorcycle? I can imagine that it would be possible to detect fairly reliably with smartphone sensors (correlate curved ground path with gyro tilt), but it's astonishing and frightening that they would put in the effort to go that far.
  - SanjayMehta 4y ago
    Some 4-5 years ago someone analyzed an Android phone and showed they even know when you've exited a car. I'll update this comment with a link when I find it.
  - blamazon 4y ago
    I think you pretty much described the mechanism there. My friends and I have experimented with "riding like a car" and we can trick the algorithm for short distances if we really think about keeping the phone upright. The keywords to learn more seem to be "activity recognition API" and I'm pretty sure they have been doing the motorcycle thing for the better part of a decade: https://developers.google.com/location-context/activity-recognition https://developers.google.com/location-context/activity-reco...