Speaking to robots

[Nancy]

Which robots do you speak to? By robots, I mean anything that is electrical and will listen to you if you speak.

I speak to Alexa. I also speak to my Sky remote, but I get frustrated when talking to it as I have to speak slow and clearly about what I want

 

[Rita]

My SON.

 

[Rita]

He is like talking to a GRUNTING ROBOT these days, but other than that Alexa, and sky remote. Siri occasionally..

 

[Nancy]

Has you tried to get anything out of Cortana?

 

[Rita]

Has you tried to get anything out of Cortana?

SORRY?

 

[Nancy]

I have a button on my laptop that says Talk To Cortana

 

[floppet]

Siri on my iPad but I always end up arguing with him. I also speak to any robots I see (Alexa, Google things) when I go to other peoples' homes.

 

[Rita]

I have a button on my laptop that says Talk To Cortana

You may aswell TALK GREEK to me, darling.

 

[Nancy]

Can you speak French to Alexa?

 

[Nancy]

I'll try

 

[Nancy]

I just asked Alexa for the time in French and she blew me a kiss!

 

[Phoenix]

I don’t speak to machines. It’s ungodly.

 

[Soldi]

You may aswell TALK GREEK to me, darling.

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[octophone]

I don't like having things in the house that are more capable of basic social interactions than I am.

 

[jivafox]

I’ve had full blown arguments with Siri

 

[Nancy]

I don't like having things in the house that are more capable of basic social interactions than I am.

That's why I got rid of my microwave.

 

[Diddy]

I had Google Home but if it tried to read out any Japanese names it was total nonsense so I gave up

 

[big ron]

FUN FACT. My Siri is an Irish woman. Soothing.

 

[big ron]

I rarely use Siri, tbh, only when I need soothing tones. We have an Alexa in the kitchen, but shes a bitch, and deffos hates women.

 

[GNL]

FUN FACT. My Siri is an Irish woman. Soothing.

Positively COLONIAL.

 

[big ron]

Positively COLONIAL.

I'm fucking IRISH.

 

[GNL]

I'm fucking IRISH.

Suddenly the colonist is ME

 

[big ron]

Well not yet, but NEARLY.

 

[COB]

We have the Google speakers and are always telling them to play music, turn lights on off and so on.

 

[Nancy]

We have the Google speakers and are always telling them to play music, turn lights on off and so on.

I hope you ask politely. I find Alexa works a lot better if I say "please" and "thank you" to her.

 

[GNL]

I'm a total luddite. I won't even talk to my PHONE.

 

[Nancy]

I hate it when someone says "Alexa" on TV and my Alexa thinks they are talking to her.

 

[Lucille]

I scream at my Alexa whenever I ask it to play ‘YAGYA’ and it starts playing ‘YAKKITY YAK’.

HOW. MANY. TIMES.

 

[Nancy]

YAGYA?

 

[Tisch]

I scream at my Alexa whenever I ask it to play ‘YAGYA’ and it starts playing ‘YAKKITY YAK’.

HOW. MANY. TIMES.

Yes, I'd have liked some sort of AI element where it learns I'm a gay and probably want the Eurovision song Hold Me Closer not a David Essex song of a similar name. It's also terrible for not understanding anything that's not English.

 

[Inner Smile]

Like beautiful robots dancing alone

 

[win_the_game]

I don’t. They can never understand my accent.

 

[Christian]

My Siri is an Australian man and he's very UPBEAT

He can't understand me though which is so infuriating I just never bother.

 

[Nancy]

I think my Alexa has a second job as a self service checkout in Sainsbury's.

 

[vespertine]

Not much as I don't have a good intuition for what they can or can not handle. Once I realised Siri was able to set a timer, I asked her to send a wire from my spending account to my cousin and she said "This function is not yet supported."

 

[Dark Carnival]

I only speak to Siri to ask for the time or the weather.

 

[floppet]

My Siri is an Australian man and he's very UPBEAT

He can't understand me though which is so infuriating I just never bother.

You can train Siri to recognise your accent, I had to do it because of my deliciously flat vowels. When I say "Hey, Siri" it's more like "Ey, Sirr-eh" (with the es pronounced as in egg). It doesn't work when Mr F says it the normal way.

 

[big ron]

Sirreh haha

 

[Saltwater]

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so polite

 

[Soldi]

so polite

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