Speech processing spoofs, jokes, etc

(some links move or break from time to time)

Early before 2005:

• How not to do Unit Selection TTS - Laurence Olivier ad for Coca Cola

• NPR on Valentines Day 2002: the male voice is Gary Mora.

• IVR "the Amtrak lady" from SNL and another at Hulu

Siri has spawned a whole new category:

• "stuff" that Siri says , more "stuff" Siri says

• a joke on Siri (Virtual Assistant) from "The Big Bang Theory" tv program 

•  same here youtu.be/lIjuMhX_nlA

• Nobody can recognize Scottish English

Automotive

• Automotive UI Learning too much? (image)

• Buick's heart attack detection from NPR's Wait Wait Dont Tell Me, October 2014

• GM Lead Engineer on the Volt, and Peter Sagal, from NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, June 2016

IVR (telephone)

• Yet another frustrated IVR user

• Turing test failures. Hilarious application of pause detection: Jolly Roger for Telemarketers

IoT

• Voice activated water cooler (April Fool's joke at some company...)

Interesting voices

• Lowest voice in the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9P1ymFCxf0#t=23s

• Vocal fry by Faith Salie

How to spoof DeepMind's ASR: 

• https://nicholas.carlini.com/code/audio_adversarial_examples/

And, yes, I know my names means "stupid" in Chinese (笨),  "of" in Arabic ( بن ), and "excrement" in Japanese (便). Associating a "toilet" with "convenience" is done in Chinese, Japanese, and English.

Serious stuff, still fun

• realtime recognition continuous: https://speechlogger.appspot.com/en/