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Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.

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  • panoptican 8 months ago
    so whatchyr saying is that 2,088 people, averaged out, roughly = 1 robot. right?

    i'm mostly kidding. awesome concept and execution. this should be the first in a long running series.
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  • Randy Jones 8 months ago
    Impressive idea and well-designed execution. I'll take this over Autotune any day.
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  • Benjamin Lotan 8 months ago
    wow, i like this a lot. lots of potential for other similar projects. reminds me of the white glove video project...
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  • willc2 8 months ago
    So the Uncanny Valley applies to human voices as well as faces. Eeesh.
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  • Mac Rutan plus 8 months ago
    Nice work! Keep it up. Bell labs or IBM need to give you a grant to keep going!
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  • Cornelius Henke 8 months ago
    The end result sounds demonic. I'm afraid of that song now.
  • David Leith 7 months ago
    exactly what came to mind when i heard it. lmao.
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  • Adriana de Barros 8 months ago
    I'm definitely featuring this soon at Scene360.com and illusion.scene360.com. I had already favorited it last week. I have a number of videos in line, one per day.

    Stay tuned, it will be up soon.
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  • ▲LEX 7 months ago
    I dig.
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  • zack mctee plus 7 months ago
    is the whole song up somewhere in audio format? This is great!
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  • Dominika Wolski 7 months ago
    creepy... a chorus of 13 small children would have sounded better?

    Or is it a big spectacle of how we ALLOW and embrace the distortion of our naturally inherent human song by machinery?

    (how very philosphical).. STILL sounds creepy!!

    well executed!
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  • Janet 7 months ago
    Pretty cool !! Not that smart yet. I might grow up one day. lol
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  • Joe Dunkley 7 months ago
    wow that sounds so evil, love it
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  • Justen Renyer 7 months ago
    I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps singing to a visual 'click track', but singing the song all the way through. I guess the difference I'm thinking of is additive vs. averaged.
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  • Adam Good 7 months ago
    Amazing use of Mechanical Turk!
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  • Jon Adams 7 months ago
    Very interesting.
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  • Stewy Michaels 7 months ago
    Nice video, very educational!
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  • Rehanna 7 months ago
    the song sounds sooo scary, but its cool how you put it together. nicee :)
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  • Robert van Hoesel 7 months ago
    Great. Love it. Next time use a human computer voice.
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  • brett stormoen 7 months ago
    thats rad.



    but creepy.
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  • Michael Carney 7 months ago
    pretty cool
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  • RuzzT 7 months ago
    Awesome!!
    ...and terrifying!
    I pray that robots never try to take over the world, because I'm pretty sure they would sing this song while they calmly walk through our neighborhoods vaporizing us with lasers.
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  • Obscura plus 7 months ago
    So that's what it's like to have multiple personality disorder. Thanks!
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  • William Justo54 7 months ago
    great video, it's very educational indeed :)
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  • Enri Bimbashi 7 months ago
    i don't get it
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  • Mark Ragunton 7 months ago
    wow, this is almost scary, ha. very nice effort though, i wonder how long this actually took?
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  • Heather St. Clare 7 months ago
    very creative. this must have taken forever.
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  • Ilmari Aho 7 months ago
    Great work! The result is as scary as HAL 9000...
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  • David Chaudoir 7 months ago
    I'm sure that Kubrick would have heard that and used that for HAL's meltdown sequence in 2001.

    Remember HAL is one letter backwards from IBM.
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