This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition

Re:This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition by crazygringo on Monday February 09, 2015 @08:22PM (#9024855)

If you read the rest of the paragraph, it's quite clear that the entire description is intentionally humorous nonsense. I mean, the third sentence had to make that clear... ;)

> They ended up illustrating a crate of Campbell’s® Tomato Soup™ in the corner to make it feel a bit more canny.

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Re:This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition by scintill76 on Monday February 09, 2015 @09:37PM (#9025078)

I have mixed feelings about misleading stealth jokes like this (I wouldn't want someone reading to "learn" that Pixar coined the term in 1992), but this one's pretty obvious and probably worth it for the laugh.

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Re:This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition by nicolethenerd on Monday February 09, 2015 @10:28PM (#9025241)

The missing word kind of broke the joke for me ("so he [can/could] get a vasectomy") - I got so hung up on wondering whether part of the sentence was missing or whether something had been lost in translation that I missed the fact that it was just an attempt at humor.

Copy editing - it's important!

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Re:This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition by mtVessel on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:12AM (#9025497)

Agreed. Without that auxiliary verb, it was really hard to know the author was kidding about Buzz Lightyear getting a vasectomy in A Bug's Life.

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