How the hell did they get voice activated commands working i

>>8130351

if you have prerecorded commands based on his voice and dialect. then it is only a threshold similarity between the word he says and the word he can hear.

or else its fake and its all scripted. most of it is scripted anyways probably

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>1939
>just invented electricity
>voiced by phil harris (baloo, jungle book)
>just happens to be tall with thick legs and a very wide torso

mfw brainlets actually think this was a real robot and not just some cuck in a suit

>>8130381
His voice was done by a record player evidently.

Watching the video, it appears that after the command is entered, the rest of the action is scripted, but the command looks legit. I don't think the operator would talk so mechanically if it wasn't. Then again, there's no proof that it wasn't completely scripted.

This was the time around when radar was being developed. Perhaps they had an analog circuit that could cross correlate a voice signal with a recorded signal, or perhaps they had a matched filter design. If this was the case, that's pretty damn remarkable.

Radio was very well studied at the time. Microphone hits a radio wave that transmits a command. The pins system could control the result of the output. It would be a complicated electronic scheme, but I'm sure any undergrad could create it today.

>>8130416
The commands are the ones he speaks directly into the mic with long pauses between. The rest is indeed scripted.

>>8130406
It is real, robotics and this shit is extremely simple to do. It is just poorly designed. Humans are no more intelligent now then in the 1930s. We are just better educated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0

considering they made this and the theremin...

>>8130351
By the flashing light in the robot's torso, it looks like the operator's words are translated into binary input.

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>>8130351
>How the hell did they get voice activated commands working in 1939??
They just counted words, or rather sounds of a minimum volume and duration, separated by pauses between a minimum and maximum duration, terminated by a longer pause of some minimum duration:
http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/Elektro.html

It was still a complicated device, but vastly simpler than any kind of real speech recognition.

>>8130416
>the command looks legit. I don't think the operator would talk so mechanically if it wasn't.
...unless that's what they wanted you to think. The robot talked the same way, even though they were obviously playing a recording of a human performance. That was showmanship. "This is just the way you talk with robots, because this is the way robots talk." They might have done something very similar if there was a man behind the curtain.

But yeah: he talked like that so the simple circuits could count his words.

People were making demonstrations of voders (voice operating demonstrator) and vocoders (voice encoder), which used analog technology to synthesize and analyse speech (at the time, it was mainly used in communication technology, particularly for encrypted voice channels, though it was not all that good, later, "vocoder" came to mean gimmicky stylistic speech synthesis). It would have been possible to do something much more sophisticated with emerging technology of the day, to distinguish some carefully-spoken words from others using the outputs of a vocoder, but they didn't do it.

Here's an early voder demonstration, the same year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_wfKVjuJM

>>8131625
Great response. Thanks

>>8131625
>>WE'RE GONNA MAKE A ROBOT AND IT'S GONNA SMOKE!

Oh how the times have changed