Show HN: Watch and hear macOS robots argue live in your terminal

https://github.com/christophemarois/arguing-robots

by christophem • 9 years ago

36 22 9 years ago

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macscam• 9 years ago

This seems important

christophem• 9 years ago

It's the opposite of important, thus it might be

andyfleming• 9 years ago

Thanks for sharing!

firefoxd• 9 years ago

Maybe i don't know the reference. Anyone care to clarify?

Kiro4• 9 years ago

What 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• 9 years ago

As far as I can see it's just a txt file read with different voices...

tomeglenn• 9 years ago

You 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...

trqx2• 9 years ago

care to share an audio sample for those of us not owning an apple machine?

I'm curious about Navi's voice.

khedoros1• 9 years ago

Look 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.

trqx2• 9 years ago

eh, 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

OliverJones• 9 years ago

Oh, 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.

tangue• 9 years ago

Emacs Doctor ( which was a version of Eliza [0]) is actually more sophisticated than this script.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Kiro4• 9 years ago

If it's half as awesome as twitch.tv/seebotschat was it's amazing.

OJFord• 9 years ago

I 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.

Kiro4• 9 years ago

Well, 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.

p4bl02• 9 years ago

I 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• 9 years ago

Even I thought it was something related to AI. But looks like it is just a simple text to speech utility.

p4bl02• 9 years ago

It uses a text-to-speech utility, it is not even implementing that.

otterpro• 9 years ago

I 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/) 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• 9 years ago

Meh, I've done better stuff with Hailo from CPAN and 20 lines of Perl.

dang• 9 years ago

Please 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

Edit: you've repeatedly posted uncivil comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop doing that.

Show HN: Watch and hear macOS robots argue live in your terminal

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