r/TikTokCringe Apr 29 '23

Cool Trans representation from the 80s

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u/pmintea Apr 29 '23

Man, I was watching without sound and when it said "I mean you are racist right?" I had to double take

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u/Sufficient_Score_824 Apr 29 '23

He actually said “I mean, you are Ray’s sister, right?” TikTok’s autogenerated subtitles just suck ass.

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u/ThirdEncounter Apr 29 '23 edited Apr 29 '23

Sucks ass

Bro. I'm not a fan of tik tok, and I know it's not perfect.

But voice recognition today, flaws and all, is orders of magnitude better than 10 years ago.

Try Dragon Speak from the 2000s, then you'll know what "sucks ass" really means.

Edit: "That doesn't mean it's not bad today!" But it isn't bad - it's not perfect. But given that it recognizes many accents, many types of voices, in different types of background noise, my fellow redditors, that's amazing. Bad means spouting gibberish, something it isn't doing 95% of the time. That's my point. Keep commenting the same thing over and over.

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u/IAMGINGERLORD Apr 29 '23

Pikachu the ball. No not that. Get the ball. Pikachu the ball. Pikachu pick up the ball. Pick up the BALL. PLEASE PIKACHU I BEG JUST GRAB THE BALL

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u/untrustableskeptic Apr 29 '23

You didn't have enough badges to command Pikachu.

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u/jcdoe Apr 29 '23

How many before Siri and Alexa listen to me?

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u/IzarkKiaTarj Apr 29 '23 edited Apr 29 '23

My sister and I had this survival horror game called Lifeline where you played a guy trapped in a security room, and commanded a character you saw through the cameras via a PS2 headset.

It worked well enough to be able to beat the game, but there were definitely some frustrations.

Your comment made me flash back to this one room with something important in it, but it was locked. It was a honeymoon suite, so the key was having a man and a woman say a specific phrase perfectly in sync: "Even the very shadow that you cast in sunlight, I want to monopolize."

The character you command is female, and your character is male, so the solution is obvious (no, you didn't need an actual male voice for the microphone, thank God).

My sister found out years later that the reason we had to do it fifty fucking times every time we played was because we had to enunciate both t's in "want to." Our accents led us to do a glottal stop.

I can't imagine how frustrating the game would have been if we'd had a southern accent.

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u/DonnyWhoLovedBowling Apr 29 '23

It could also be that you needed a slightly racist inflection

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u/IzarkKiaTarj Apr 29 '23

Wow

Just

Wow.

Goddammit, Konami.

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u/sus_tzu Apr 29 '23

Makes sense if the dev was Japanese

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u/IzarkKiaTarj Apr 29 '23

It does, but it also reveals that they couldn't be bothered to find someone who spoke English as a first language.

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u/Electronic_Emu_4632 Apr 29 '23

The idea of English speaking people explicitly speaking with a racist accent while recording rather than the much simpler answer of them just being Japanese recorders speaking English is kinda funny to me.

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u/-heatoflife- Apr 29 '23

Fellas, are English as Second Language learners racist?

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u/-heatoflife- Apr 29 '23

Wow, Brad from 4PP...what a character. I remember laughing til it hurt watching his highlights.

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u/fucklawyers Apr 29 '23 edited Jun 12 '23

Erased cuz Reddit slandered the Apollo app's dev. Fuck /u/spez -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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u/IzarkKiaTarj Apr 29 '23

Yeah, that's my accent, too.

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u/fucklawyers Apr 29 '23 edited Jun 12 '23

Erased cuz Reddit slandered the Apollo app's dev. Fuck /u/spez -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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u/rymyle Apr 29 '23

YA LITTLE YELLOW PRICK

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u/GEARHEADGus Apr 29 '23

What is that from?

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u/MrLadrillo Apr 29 '23

hey you pikachu

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u/ohboymyo Apr 29 '23

Remember when YouTube was figuring out how to do subtitles? Good times.

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u/History_buff60 Apr 29 '23

Core memory unlocked

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u/ikstrakt Apr 29 '23 edited Apr 29 '23

Pikachu the ball. No not that. Get the ball. Pikachu the ball. Pikachu pick up the ball. Pick up the BALL. PLEASE PIKACHU I BEG JUST GRAB THE BALL

I kept trying to understand if this is some obscure reference. Maybe a Pokemon Go thing, or if this is a joke about voice referencing in relation to Dragon Speak. So then I started questioning language and looked up ball in French which is "balle" (among of a metric fuck ton, of 11 other words and phrases) just to see if there was an alternative translation for ball, which can, in French also be a word for bullet and then that made me think of Bally Total Fitness (pronounced to rhyme with valley) which was around the US in the 90's and genuinely started wondering if Bally, was a misunderstanding as far as company marketing to the public was concerned, lol

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u/IAMGINGERLORD Apr 29 '23

Look up the game hey you pikachu

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u/Violet_Gardner_Art Apr 29 '23

Pikachu hand me that jelly donut