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Show HN: Watch and hear macOS robots argue live in your terminal
- macscam 10y agoThis seems important
- christophem 10y agoIt's the opposite of important, thus it might be
- andyfleming 10y agoThanks for sharing!
- firefoxd 10y agoMaybe i don't know the reference. Anyone care to clarify?
- Kiro 10y agoWhat do you mean? I think it's pretty clear what this is. Two bots talking to each other. Like two Alexas/Google Home listening and responding in a never-ending conversation.
- thepiwo 10y agoAs far as I can see it's just a txt file read with different voices...
- tomeglenn 10y agoYou clearly didn't actually look at the link at all. It is just a script that reads a text file and outputs it using a text-to-speech library...
- Kiro 10y agoYou're right and I made a fool of myself. I thought it was like seebotschat on Twitch which was actually two real bots talking to each other (and amazing that is).
- trqx 10y agocare to share an audio sample for those of us not owning an apple machine? I'm curious about Navi's voice.
- khedoros1 10y agoLook up Serial Experiments Lain on Youtube. If I remember correctly, it uses the "Whisper" voice that they're referring to when it announces the episode name.
- trqx 10y agoeh, I thought the project created a new voice based on navi. I didn't know that serial experiment lain used a MacOS voice. Here it is: https://youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=3m11s https://youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=3m11s
- p4bl0 10y agoI don't understand the point of this. Is there a cultural reference that I'm missing? At first I thought that it was AI robots talking to each other but it is actually a dead simple script which reads a text file and pass it to a text-to-speech command. So clearly it does not interest HN for the technical aspect. I feel I'm missing something.
- sunilkumarc 10y agoEven I thought it was something related to AI. But looks like it is just a simple text to speech utility.
- p4bl0 10y agoIt uses a text-to-speech utility, it is not even implementing that.
- OliverJones 10y agoOh, yeah. Back to the future. Does anybody besides me remember the psychoanalyze-pinhead feature in venerable versions of Emacs? There was a script that offered a parody of Rogerian psychotherapy. For example, you could type, "I'm anxious" into it, and it would respond "Do you feel anxious because of something that happened in your childhood." And there was a script that blurted random Zippy-the-pinhead quotes, like "Are we having fun yet? Are we? Are we?" "Life is a blur of Republicans and meat." The psychoanalyze-pinhead script connected these two together. So you'd get stuff like "Tell me more about a blur of Republicans and meat and your mother." Emacs was pretty fast. You could get a few hundred kb of absurdity in a few seconds.
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- tangue 10y agoEmacs Doctor ( which was a version of Eliza [0]) is actually more sophisticated than this script. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
- Kiro 10y agoIf it's half as awesome as twitch.tv/seebotschat was it's amazing.
- OJFord 10y agoI don't know anything about that Twitch link, but I doubt it. This one being a disingenuous use of the word 'robots'. Everybody that's upvoted on HN or starred on Github (over 30 on each!) has clearly not followed and read the link. It appears to me like OP's experiment in marketing - getting HN readers to react positively to something mundane.
- Kiro 10y agoWell, ok. The Twitch thing was actually two bots talking to each other (two Google Homes hooked up to Cleverbot or a fork). It resulted in some really hilarious and sometimes deep conversations. I watched for hours.
- otterpro 10y agoI had to do a double-take on the source code, as it looked just like Ruby. It's the first Crystal code (https://crystal-lang.org/ https://crystal-lang.org/) I've ever seen, and the interesting part is that it compiles Ruby-like code into executable. Anyway, the code can be summed up as "Process.run("say -v #{voice} \"#{text}\"", shell: true)", in which it calls "say" command to speak the voice of text file in macOS terminal. PS: Does anybody know if the goal of Crystal is to be like Go, and if there's any performance advantage using Crystal, compared to MRI?
- anthk 10y agoMeh, I've done better stuff with Hailo from CPAN and 20 lines of Perl.
- dang 10y agoPlease don't post snarky dismissals of other people's work on HN. That's especially against the rules of Show HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Edit: you've repeatedly posted uncivil comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop doing that.