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Cool hack (maybe); wonderfully untogether video – starting with describing Josh’s “crude” brain activity (which gets funnier each time I see it) to the blast of feedback and a random nerd appearing out of nowhere at the end.
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I’m not entirely sure that they’re not taking the piss to be honest. All the other blogs seem to be taking it seriously, but it would be so easy just to mock it up etc. Then again, I’ve seen examples of this before (years ago)… brain control things have been around for a while. Not sure why they’d need a speech synthesiser that sounds like Stephen Hawking if Siri can already talk, but there you go.
They say it’s on kickstarter, but I can’t find it. Then again, Kickstarter’s navigation is terrible.
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Nice, although I’d like to have heard the synthesized voice.
> Not sure why they’d need a speech synthesiser that sounds like Stephen Hawking if Siri can already talk, but there you go.
AFAICT the TTS chip is what feeds the orders to Siri (rather than them hacking Siri to tell her what to do)
Or was that voice we heard /not/ one of Siri’s stock voices? in which case I have no idea WTF is going on…
On second thought, that TTS chip seems to not be connected to anything, and it’s pins are shorted out in 4 groups because of the way it’s inserted into the breadboard !!
Youtube also thinks they’re trolling us…