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Science: Health: Artificial Organs
Reading Parrot   (+6)  [vote for, against]
stands on the shoulders of the illiterati

Text-to-speech faux birds for people who can't or won't read the language of the culture they find themselves in. For such things as signage and menus.
-- FlyingToaster, Sep 28 2010

Teddy_20AI [FlyingToaster, Sep 28 2010]

Reading Parrot http://www.gurney.c...parrots/origin.html
the only parrot sanctuary in and around the Berkshire area [pocmloc, Sep 28 2010]

Get away with you, it'll just repeat things back at you, without understanding any context or inflection!
-- infidel, Sep 28 2010


You mean like a network news anchor?
-- doctorremulac3, Sep 28 2010


A reader without an opinion, IOW. Perfect. (*Some* training required.) [+]
-- Boomershine, Sep 28 2010


WIBN if parrots could read? They could read a book to your child when you just feel like having a beer, or read when you don't feel like putting on your glasses, or read for blind people...but they don't read. [-]
(not really understanding the category either)
-- xandram, Sep 28 2010


We thought this idea would be about brightly coloured birds from mid-Berkshire ...
-- 8th of 7, Sep 28 2010


meant as a language appendage: an artificial brain if you will. Fake bird makes you look like a pirate with a parrot.
-- FlyingToaster, Sep 28 2010


[xandram]//but they don't read. [-]//

Yet. I couldn't read at first, either. Now I won't have to.
-- Boomershine, Sep 28 2010


Hold on [xandram], they are //faux birds// - so I'm guessing it'sa dummy that is rigged with vision & text recognition systems.
-- Jinbish, Sep 28 2010


Hold on [jinbish] - I did not see *faux* in there before my anno--nor did I see the last sentence. I think the post has been edited...(only my parrot will know for sure, so I will remove the fishbone)
-- xandram, Sep 28 2010


Why do you have a fishbone in your parrot ? Parrots don't eat fish.
-- 8th of 7, Sep 28 2010


I think mine's broken. It only translates Agatha Christie novels... no wait, uh my bad, says right here on the box that it's a Reading Poirot.

Dang French/English packaging.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 29 2010


Obviously something lost in the translation from Belgian ...
-- 8th of 7, Sep 29 2010


Lock 'im away in one of the 'little grey cells'.

Fair enough, [xandram], we can stop holding on now...
-- Jinbish, Sep 29 2010


I actually like the idea of a *language appendage* but real pirates wouldn't be caught dead with a fake parrot!!
-- xandram, Sep 29 2010


[xandram] Oh, but *ironical* pirates would.
-- mouseposture, Sep 29 2010


They'd also have fake gold.
-- Jinbish, Sep 30 2010


You mean, pound coins, for example?
-- pocmloc, Sep 30 2010


the 'crackers' might be data disks, perhaps whole novels or the papers one need fill out for a proper visa.
-- dentworth, Sep 30 2010


Do pirates have fake visas? Or do they just skim other people's Visas?
-- infidel, Sep 30 2010



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