[HN Gopher] More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
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More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
Author : bryanrasmussen
Score : 182 points
Date : 2021-08-24 13:02 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| Dumblydorr wrote:
| I use whistling daily. I discovered my dog responds best to
| whistling, whenever he hears my whistle, he knows it's me and
| comes running. Now, I use that to my partner ironically, if I
| don't want to shout and hurt the vocal cords, just whistle and
| she knows her presence is requested.
| vanattab wrote:
| >Now, I use that to my partner ironically, if I don't want to
| shout and hurt the vocal cords, just whistle and she knows her
| presence is requested.
|
| Or you know... you COULD walk over to where she is.
| [deleted]
| France_is_bacon wrote:
| Or, you know...she COULD walk over to where he is.
| VBprogrammer wrote:
| Yeah, my partner's family have a "family whistle" which is
| often employed to find one another. It's useful but also
| feels a little disrespectful.
| agitator wrote:
| This made me realize that my dad has a specific whistle
| that he would use throughout my childhood and even today as
| an adult, to get the attention of my brother and myself if
| we were out somewhere. Like a "Hey, we're leaving. Let's
| go"
| ckosidows wrote:
| My dad used to whistle at us all the time as children and
| he probably still does when I see him. I probably picked it
| up from him.
|
| I whistled to an ex SO and they considered it
| disrespectful. I'm not sure I yet understand why it's
| disrespectful, not that I consider either opinion more or
| less correct. I just don't really understand that opinion.
|
| Maybe someone can expand on it?
| Baeocystin wrote:
| My parents had a 'if you hear this whistle, come here',
| which, depending on the sequence of tones, meant anything
| from '5 minute heads up before it is time to go' to
| 'literally drop what you are doing and run to this
| position'.
|
| It wasn't disrespectful at all. It was a great way to
| communicate over wider distances than is possible with
| regular voice, and in retrospect it was impressive how
| little translation it took for all of us kids to understand
| which meaning was being conveyed.
| calvinmorrison wrote:
| I whistle at my SO all the time in the grocery store etc.
| Nobody else does it so if we're a few aisles apart usually i
| can just do the whistle and then we find eachother. Beats
| yelling like a moron
| sethammons wrote:
| I text my wife to find them in the store; sometimes the
| received text sound lets me know where they are :)
| dugmartin wrote:
| If you want to see some fun dog training with whistles search
| for videos of sheep dogs or waterfowl retrievers.
|
| My cousin trained a couple of black labs to be waterfowl
| retrievers. I saw him in training throw out a training "duck"
| and hold the labs at this side with just a look. Then he
| whistled and they took off. About 5 feet from the "duck" he
| whistled again and they stopped. The dogs wanted to get to the
| "duck" so bad they looked like they were vibrating. He kept
| them there for a good 30 seconds before whistling again to
| signal for them to retrieve it. It was pretty cool to watch.
|
| Not quite as cool but we have a "shock" collar on our cat to
| keep him off the neighbor's porch furniture. Our neighbor is
| very, very allergic to cats. It is activated by a 10' diameter
| transmitter placed under their furniture and beeps like crazy
| for 10 seconds before it does anything - a couple of beeps sets
| my cat running.
|
| For some reason (maybe after seeing my cousin do it?) I started
| doing a specific whistle pattern when the cat comes in the
| house with the collar on. That will now stop the cat dead in
| his tracks and he will wait for me to take it off. The reverse
| is true also - if he sneaks out of the house without it on I
| can do the same whistle and he will stop and wait for me to put
| it on him.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| There are no IPA keys for whistling.
| bradrn wrote:
| Sure there are: [s] and so on. But really I see no reason why
| musical notation wouldn't be sufficient.
|
| (I should note that's not [s]; it's [s] with an arrow below it.
| It's hard to tell the difference with the font on my screen.)
| bitdivision wrote:
| That's interesting thanks! There's not much on wikipedia [0]
| about that character, but it does appear to be for whistled
| speech!
|
| 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%CD%8E
| johnorourke wrote:
| Captain Crunch called, said make that 81.
| DaiPlusPlus wrote:
| > "still speak in whistles"
|
| "still"?
|
| Why is having _more_ degrees of expressiveness in a vocal
| language considered an anachronism?
| 1123581321 wrote:
| Read the article and you'll have a better idea how to preserve
| this form of communication.
| citrus1330 wrote:
| If you read the article you would know.
|
| "Despite their interest to both linguists and casual observers,
| whistled languages are disappearing rapidly all over the world,
| and some -- such as the whistled form of the Tepehua language
| in Mexico -- have already vanished. Modernization is largely to
| blame, says Meyer, who points to roads as the biggest factor.
| "That's why you still find whistled speech only in places that
| are very, very remote, that have had less contact with
| modernity, less access to roads," he says."
| newsbinator wrote:
| > Modernization is largely to blame
|
| I'd replace "blame" with "thank": the simpler languages can
| become, and the fewer of them in daily use we can get to
| globally, the better for the entire species.
|
| I'd love an expressive and terse baseline human language.
|
| No problem if people still use other languages too, for
| cultural or historical reasons.
| xj9 wrote:
| more language diversity is more fun. common languages are
| boring. folks should learn more languages, rather than
| less. its good for your brain too. here's to another babel
| moment!
| newsbinator wrote:
| Learning a lot of complicated things is good for your
| brain, like programming in various languages or playing
| various musical instruments. It's fun too.
|
| But having a multilingual globe comes at a massive,
| immeasurable cost.
|
| One of the greatest forces to improve economic
| opportunity and equality in the history of the world
| would be if everybody suddenly agreed on one simple,
| terse, expressive human language and switched to it, in
| all contexts except home life and shared spiritual or
| community services.
|
| No more IELTS tests, no more spelling bees, no more "why
| is 'wherefore art thou' not about Romeo's location?", no
| more notarized translation costs everywhere in the
| world... everybody gets equal access to all media created
| in all places (although of course there'll still be
| place-specific references in that media), etc
|
| If you were designing an ideal human world, the last
| thing you'd want to do is build a Tower of Babel on it.
| InitialLastName wrote:
| > one simple, terse, expressive human language
|
| I suspect this is one of those "pick two, at best"
| situations.
| brink wrote:
| Soon we will learn how to eradicate these so-called
| "whistlers".
| mc32 wrote:
| In NYC construction workers are having their whistling curbed
| because most of it was the of sexist kind or at least a
| sufficient number of recipients didn't want them.
| dang wrote:
| " _Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of
| what someone says, not a weaker one that 's easier to
| criticize._"
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| mypastself wrote:
| Your interpretation of the title is not supported by the
| article's content. In fact, you're agreeing with it.
| addingnumbers wrote:
| They call whistling languages "vestiges," a "protolanguage,"
| and baselessly speculate that they originate from less-
| evolved primates. The writer's tone keeps reverting to subtly
| dismissive and colonialist.
| citrus1330 wrote:
| The article actually says the exact opposite. Can you read?
| Here's the quote:
|
| "That doesn't mean that modern whistled speech is a
| vestigial remnant of those protolanguages, Meyer cautions.
| If whistling preceded voiced speech, those earliest
| whistles wouldn't have needed to encode sounds produced by
| the vocal cords. But today's whistled languages do, which
| means they arose later, as add-ons to conventional
| languages, not forerunners of them, Meyer says."
| sethammons wrote:
| Your post would still work if you removed "Can you read?"
| but would be less hostile
| addingnumbers wrote:
| Yes, clearly they recognized the need to backpedal
| somewhat from their long string of intimations that these
| languages have savage and primal qualities.
|
| Did you think that passage was a total non-sequitur? Are
| they cautioning you from believing something you would
| have no reason to believe? Or do you think they were
| aware they had unduly created that impression.
| pcrh wrote:
| On the contrary, they stress that using whistling to
| discover fundamentals of communication using sound does
| not imply that whistling was the original form of
| communication by sound.
| addingnumbers wrote:
| They could have achieved the same effect by never
| suggesting that whistling languages are primal or
| antiquated in the first place.
|
| I suppose if I say "we shouldn't assume people who
| comment on HN posts are sad, lonely, and grumpy" I'm not
| being offensive or disrespectful. After all, I never said
| outright that anyone was any of those things. On the
| contrary, it actually says the exact opposite
|
| It's a trick of language called insinuation.
| pcrh wrote:
| I think the point they are trying to make is that proto-
| language spoken by our ancestors would likely have had
| fewer components and reduced sophistication, as does
| whistling.
|
| So identifying the _minimum_ requirements for
| comprehensible, yet sophisticated, communication by sound
| would possibly shed light on what paleo-speech was
| like...
| mkotowski wrote:
| Probably they worded it this way (assuming good intentions, of
| course) because whistle-based language forms were created as a
| tool to combat communication hurdles in a challenging terrain.
| With the development of long-range communication, I would dare
| to say it is amazing that there are still practitioners of
| whistled speech.
| beardyw wrote:
| I remember walking in Andalusia an coming across a shepherd
| sitting on a grass bank, holding his head in his hands,
| talking to his sheep. It seemed I had stepped back in time
| and felt it was a very special moment.
|
| Looking back I saw he was actually on his mobile phone.
|
| Other forms of communication are available.
| momirlan wrote:
| The shepherd i met in Romania had 2 cell phones. One for
| each side of the mountain
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Because languages gradually lose phoenetic features over time.
| Phonetic diversity is a primary method for determining the age
| of a language. Hawaiian is a recent language with just 8
| consonants and !Kung is ancient with over 50 consonants. The
| same phenomenon occurs with DNA diversity. Here is an article
| with explanation:
|
| https://www.languagesoftheworld.info/bad-linguistics/phonemi...
| rvense wrote:
| > Because languages gradually lose phoenetic features over
| time
|
| I don't think this is accurate. While it certainly does
| happen, new phonemic distinctions can certainly arise as
| languages change.
|
| The article you link to does not support the idea either, in
| fact it explicitly contradicts it:
|
| "Moreover, there is no bias towards decreasing the size of
| phonemic inventory over time as human populations moved out
| of Africa, as phonemes may be added as well as eliminated."
| emodendroket wrote:
| For the same reason you don't see a lot of carrier pigeons
| anymore: it's been supplanted by something easier requiring
| less training.
| estebarb wrote:
| This is extremely cool!!! Also I find surprising that, as a
| Spanish speaker with no whistle-spanish training, I was able to
| understand most of the whistles.
| bradrn wrote:
| Interesting! Spanish isn't a tonal language, so how do you
| 'translate' the words into whistles? (And do you think you
| could do it without subtitles?)
|
| (I should note I haven't actually managed to watch the video
| yet, because my audio seems to be broken. Perhaps it would be
| obvious if only I could hear the whistles...)
| yosito wrote:
| To me it literally just sounded like Spanish, but in a high
| pitched whistle. Some of the sounds don't reproduce 1:1 in a
| whistle, but the whistling is adapted to still sound similar
| and comprehensible. I thought I would be able to do this
| myself by whistling out Spanish words, but it appears that it
| takes some practice to make all of the correct sounds. I
| tried in English, Spanish and Hungarian and I'm only able to
| produce musical notes, not distinguishable letters.
| chestertn wrote:
| Spanish speaker here. Also surprised that I understand the
| whistles, in particular the second video.
|
| Does it happen to you that when you think of a word in
| English, even if you don't vocalize, some of your vocal cords
| become tense or move? Well, these whistles feel the same.
| bradrn wrote:
| > when you think of a word in English, even if you don't
| vocalize, some of your vocal cords become tense or move
|
| Oddly enough, I _haven't_ ever perceived this, but I can
| consciously trigger it, and I do think I understand what
| you mean.
| citrus1330 wrote:
| I'm not even a native Spanish speaker and I was surprised to
| find that I could follow along pretty well using the subtitles.
| mr-wendel wrote:
| If you can find it, this documentary is a lot of fun:
| Pucker Up - The Fine Art of Whistling
|
| There is a short, but great segment where this is demonstrated
| with two men whistling across mountain tops to communicate.
|
| The film is filled with gems like one guy explaining as a
| compulsive whistler he got in trouble once for whistling a tune
| at a funeral.
| peter303 wrote:
| The version I read on Pocket had several audio clips of whistled
| English. It is understandable. Once you learn the conventions for
| representing fricatives as whistles, you can pretty much whistle
| English.
| nate00 wrote:
| That sounds so interesting!
|
| Do you still have a link to it? I wasn't able to find any
| examples by Googling.
| bitdivision wrote:
| Does anyone know if there are any examples of people whistling
| English? I'd find it fascinating to see if I could understand
| anything intuitively.
| mrxd wrote:
| This is going to be a real headache for localization.
| yoloyoloyoloa wrote:
| Its quite common in some hoods in South Africa to use whistling
| to communicate if the police or enemy gang are coming. Im pretty
| sure this isnt unique to South Africa though
| allenu wrote:
| You're probably right. I've just started watching The Wire and
| in season 2, the loading dock workers whistle to each other to
| let them know cops are around.
| sweettea wrote:
| If you find the notion of whistled languages fascinating, as do
| I, there is an app on the Play Store for Whistled Turkish:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ec.self.whistl... .
| Last time whistled languages came up, someone else here dropped a
| link to this app.
| eeshanagarwal95 wrote:
| eeshan
| eatonphil wrote:
| There's an episode of one of my favorite anthropological tv
| series (In the Americas with David Yetman) on the Chinantecan
| people in Oaxaca, Mexico.
|
| All of the episodes in this series are freely available online
| and on Amazon Prime.
|
| https://intheamericas.org/works/210-whistles-in-the-mist-whi...
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| I was just thinking about the 2-3 whistle communications common
| in the U.S. and I have no idea how one goes about transcribing
| them in text.
|
| How would one even generate a language to show whistle modes, you
| would almost have to use sheets of music :)
| etskinner wrote:
| Elsewhere in the thread, someone used 'high low high' to mean
| the whistle you use to get someone's attention, and 'low high
| low' meaning "I'm over here".
| strict9 wrote:
| Not the same as emulating vowels and consonants, but my dad used
| to whistle by with two fingers on his lips and making the loudest
| whistle. Either to get the dog's attention or my attention as a
| child.
|
| It was a rural area and he used it to communicate (come back
| home, usually) and as a child I could tell by the sound if it was
| a normal 'come home' or one where I was in trouble 'come home
| right now!'
|
| I now have a child of my own and kind of wish I could whistle
| like that, though the utility would be much less living in a city
| with endless forms of electronic communication.
| bradrn wrote:
| Apparently that sort of whistling is also used for
| communication, at least if Wikipedia is to be believed [0] (or
| if I could track down the source, which I don't feel like doing
| just right now):
|
| > Sochiapam Chinantec has three different words for whistle-
| speech: _sie3_ for whistling with the tongue against the
| alveolar ridge, _jui32_ for bilabial whistling, and _juo2_ for
| finger-in-the-mouth whistling. These are used for communication
| over varying distances.
|
| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whistled_language...
| France_is_bacon wrote:
| Here in the USA, just this past weekend, I spoke in a whistle to
| someone. They had their driver's side car door open, and they
| were in a parking space in a parking lot. Someone drove up and
| wanted to park in the open space next to them. The person with
| the open car door didn't see them. I whistled. They looked at me
| and I pointed with my chin to the waiting car. The person waved
| at me and closed her door.
|
| Maybe my whistle wasn't a regularly used and defined "word" per
| se, but it was a clear and complete conversation.
|
| Now that I think about it, I have different whistles depending on
| the situation. A high-pitched short whistle is usually "watch
| out". A short high-low-high whistle is usually reserved for
| friends to say "Hey, dude, look over here, I have something to
| say to you" usually followed by a non-verbal sign language, like
| pointing somewhere - "go over here" or "check that out". A low-
| high-low is for friends to more get their attention and let them
| know "I'm over here." The super loud whistle with your fingers in
| your mouth is "F-ing awesome" when you're in a crowd and the
| music group is playing a great song. It also has other uses. But
| mostly when there's a big crowd or the person you want to talk to
| is a long distance away. A bunch of high pitched whistles in a
| row usually means "danger/watch out."
|
| There are other whistles, too. Just giving a few to illustrate
| how whistles are used right here in the good ole USA for
| communication purposes.
|
| These are used infrequently, but I find most people understand
| what I'm whistling about and the different meanings of each
| whistle.
| wheels wrote:
| That's very, very different from whistled languages. In Silbo
| Gomero, one of the main examples here, there's a whistled
| equivalent to each sound in Spanish. The difference is
| approximately as far as waving-hands-to-indicate-something vs.
| full-on sign language (though sign-languages are genuinely
| separate languages, whereas this is just a different register
| of an existing language).
|
| As it were, I've actually spent around a year on the small
| island of La Gomera, where Silbo Gomero comes from. All kids
| have it in school as an attempt to preserve it.
| dylan604 wrote:
| As someone that's been a soccer referee, you can tell a lot by
| the ref's whistle. Just a short hit is usual for an obvious
| start or restart. For a serious foul, it's a long hard hit.
| Just from the whistle, you can tell the ref has intentions of
| issuing a card. My favorites are when the player refuses to
| acknowledge the ref to "come get your card" whistle calls when
| the ref is also "I'm not chasing you down". There's entire
| conversations conveyed by hitting that little whistle.
| spockz wrote:
| This happens exactly the same in volleyball. There are the
| almost perfunctory whistles for all the regular things like
| out of bounds. Then there are the stronger whistles for when
| someone makes a net fault and it interrupts the game flow.
| The quick double whistle to get the attention of the players.
| Then there is the boldness and the number of whistles which
| signal the seriousness of the infraction. Or the "come on,
| quit stalling" whistle.
|
| It is such an awesome compact language.
|
| I'm still sad I never learned to use my fingers to whistle.
| nathias wrote:
| You didn't speak to someone with a whistle, you communicated to
| something with a whistle without using a whistle (or other
| human language).
| [deleted]
| noobly wrote:
| What if his whistles really speak to me?
| France_is_bacon wrote:
| You say potato, I say potato. You say tomato, I say tomato.
|
| If you never heard it, this is where it came from:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sbncTUZiGk
|
| or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrw2hDjnl4
| actually.
| [deleted]
| exdsq wrote:
| Not sure if it counts as a whistle but I always find it amusing
| how my wife, who's a Swedish speaking Finn, inhales sharply to
| say "yes".
| iandioch wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingressive_sound gives some
| details about that. I knew that some Irish English speakers
| inhale when saying "yes", but it seems fairly widespread across
| Europe...
| teddyh wrote:
| That is a regional peculiarity specific to the northernmost
| parts of Sweden, and, I guess, the northernmost Swedish-
| speaking minority of Finland. Note: Sweden is very unevenly
| populated; the overwhelming majority of the population lives in
| the south half of the country, where also its three major
| cities are located. The northern parts of Sweden mostly consist
| of vast stretches of wilderness, forests, mountains, and people
| who talk funny.
| exdsq wrote:
| I think it's a little more common purely for fun, almost like
| slang, among some Swedish-speaking Finns in Helsinki (where
| she's from)."Ja" is still more common, but it's fun to inhale
| sometimes
| ithinkso wrote:
| If anyone is interested, [0] is what OP is talking about I
| think
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URgdIAz4QNg
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| Anyone learn to whistle, in any way or form, later in life? I've
| always wanted to but never been able to. I've tried a few types
| of whistles. The closest I've gotten is some quasi duck calls
| using my hands and whistling with the help of an acorn.
| mypastself wrote:
| I actually did, from a Reddit thread that guided me through the
| process step by step. I'm having trouble finding the exact link
| at the moment, but it starts with slowly breathing out the
| letter "Q".
|
| It's not a loud, booming sound or anything, but I went from
| blowing soundless air for 20-odd years to actually whistling.
| akiselev wrote:
| _> I'm having trouble finding the exact link at the moment,
| but it starts with slowly breathing out the letter "Q"._
|
| Thank you! That tip was all I needed to figure it out :)
| mypastself wrote:
| Ha, glad to be of help!
| Dumblydorr wrote:
| Here's how I whistle. Suck in your cheeks, like you're
| puckering for a kiss. Make sure the lips are a tad moist. Blow
| through the lip hole. It helps if you keep a tightness, or
| ambiture (sp?) which is how a horns or winds player would
| describe lip/cheek tightness. Inside, the tongue is resting
| against front teeth and a very light stream of abdominal air is
| supplying the whistle. Any luck?
| dmoy wrote:
| > It helps if you keep a tightness, or ambiture (sp?) which
| is how a horns or winds player would describe lip/cheek
| tightness.
|
| Yea I went from being a mediocre whistler to crazy good at it
| when I played wind instrument seriously for a decade. But
| that was decades ago so now I'm back to mediocrity.
|
| Also the word you are looking for is "embouchure"
| qnsi wrote:
| Curious, any reason why you think it might be different later
| in life?
|
| I think it just takes a lot of practice and patience
| Topgamer7 wrote:
| Don't forget that you have to repeatedly do it so much you
| feel like you're going to faint from lack of oxygen! Remember
| that when learning to whistle as a youngin :)
| onionisafruit wrote:
| I gradually lost the ability to whistle in my 30s. I never
| whistled very loud, but now it's almost nothing.
| mikestew wrote:
| I lost that ability in my 30s thanks to Bell's Palsy. I
| mostly recovered, but the nerves on the right side didn't
| completely recover enough for me to seal my lips well enough
| to do it anymore. After I wasted $35 on a chanter, my wife
| and neighbors were relieved to find out that I won't ever be
| able to play the bagpipes, either.
| jbluepolarbear wrote:
| I can whistle 3 ways: the typical pucker you lips whistle, use
| your fingers whistle, and a third that I've only seen my
| brother and I do. For the third curl your upper lip towards
| your nose, bring the bottom lip up flat, move your tongue all
| the back and down, and try and direct the air into the split
| part of your inner upper lip. It's a very loud piercing whistle
| that can be heard much farther than the typical finger whistle.
| lexapro wrote:
| Like everything else, practice. When I learned it, first few
| days no sound would come out. Then the occasional "accidental"
| half-whistle. Now I can whistle songs.
| indrax wrote:
| I was never able to whistle well until I learned to do it while
| _inhaling_ which came out much louder and helped me learn a
| better mouth shape for whistling while exhaling.
| hycaria wrote:
| I cannot. I did practice on my commute for two years and still
| cannot whistle. People tried to teach me and that failed. From
| time to time a get a note but not very loud and I cannot make
| it last.
| bynkman wrote:
| If you can't whistle, there's a way to use an acorn or a bottle
| cap to do so. I can whistle, but not that loud, and often use a
| bottle cap to whistle loudly at venues.
| https://youtu.be/tydJLavu8Fc
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| Maybe an app that changes any spoken recording into a whistled
| one?
| dcolkitt wrote:
| The biggest downside I see is that it makes language much harder
| for young children. It's rare to see someone under 6 be able to
| whistle.
| Igelau wrote:
| I love the lilt of that whistled _buenoooo_.
| 0xdeadb00f wrote:
| Slightly related: I've always loved the clicking sounds used in a
| number of (South) African languages. Xhosa for example has 6
| different clicking sounds [0].
|
| It's so surprising to me that English and most other languages
| don't make use of any clicking sounds whatsoever.
|
| 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_language
| gfaure wrote:
| English does use clicks, as paralinguistic sounds. The first
| paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant has
| a couple of examples.
| Teracotage wrote:
| In Syria, whistling has been essential to those hobbyists who
| raise birds, to communicate and command them ""Hemeimati (Pigeon
| fancier)" If you have ever visited Damascus and its countryside,
| Homs, Aleppo or any other Syrian city, you should have noticed
| swarms of pigeons hovering over the city, swaying right and left,
| up and down responding to the signs of a person standing on a
| roof.
|
| This person would be carrying a long stick in his hand with a
| black or white piece of cloth on its tip, waving it, as if
| telling the flying swarm to fly higher or fly down towards him,
| often with a "whistle"
| https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2016/08/mysterious-w...
| yellow_lead wrote:
| Cool video in that article: https://youtu.be/MaIKWtSCx0M?t=110
|
| It doesn't show them doing what you mentioned, but they all go
| into their coop on command
| TheGigaChad wrote:
| Savages.
| question000 wrote:
| I honestly would love if we stopped trying to square the circle
| with speech recognition and just built a phonetic signal based
| system for computer interaction. Words are overrated, I'd rather
| whistle at my speakers like I'm R2D2.
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| I would also happily go for that, but I suspect that most
| people do not want to learn a new way to communicate just to
| talk to their computers.
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