GOOG-411's "Biddy-Biddy-Boop" Sound Backstory 194
Chris Albrecht writes "The bippedy-bippedy-bippedy sound you hear when using 1-800-GOOG-411 is actually a senior voice designer at Google. (Here's the sound.) The technical term for that noise is the 'fetch audio,' and it's more complicated to design than you'd think. For the first time, the voice of GOOG-411 talks about how he came up with it, how important that sound is, and how people now ask him to 'perform' it."
Twiki? (Score:5, Funny)
Swedish Dirty Talking (Score:5, Funny)
No wonder his sister got bitten by a moose.
lol (Score:3, Funny)
how does it sound slowed down (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"senior voice expert"? (Score:3, Funny)
Every time you call an IVR or reach an automated speech system, someone's worked at it to make it not just functional, but also usable and friendly.
Give it a rest. It's only the audio equivalent of an hourglass cursor.
If my phone made that noise... (Score:3, Funny)
Google - we expect much better from $600/share.
Easier method suggestion. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Turn up your Mac (Score:5, Funny)
The fix is of course simple and entirely intuitive, as are all things on a Mac.
a) open iTunes
b) In the Window menu, choose Equalizer
c) Crank the Pre-amp setting to 12
Now all of the audio on your Mac will not only be loud enough to hear, it will be louder than the same audio on a PC, which can only be turned up 10
Re:"senior voice expert"? (Score:4, Funny)
I hear something different (Score:4, Funny)
Next week on Googledot... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"senior voice expert"? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, the audio hourglass cursor first created by the senior hourglass expert was green-lighted by the Senior VP for Cursors, but nixed by the Chief Audio Officer or CAO. External audio/cursor mediation consultants were brought in and a compromise was reached by which the same sound would be re-recorded, but this time under the auspices of the CAO's handpicked Special Cursor Liaison Officer to the office of the Senior VP for Cursors.
<caseykasem>and that boy grew up to be ... Paul Allen.<caseykasem>
Re:Swedish Dirty Talking (Score:4, Funny)
Pffft, I'm Swedish , and our language sounds nothing like that, *bork* *bork* *bork*.
Obligatory Spaceballs (Score:5, Funny)
YouTube video [youtube.com]
Dark Helmet: Now what is it?
Radar Technician: I'm having trouble with the radar, sir.
Dark Helmet: What's wrong with it?
Radar Technician: I've lost the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps.
Dark Helmet: The what?
Colonel Sandurz: The what?
Dark Helmet: And the what?
Radar Technician: You know. The bleeps. [makes bleep sound effect]
Radar Technician: The sweeps. [makes sweep sound]
Radar Technician: And the creeps. [makes creep sound]
Dark Helmet: [to Colonel Sandurz] That's not all he's lost.
Re:Turn up your Mac (Score:5, Funny)
Somehow, "This one goes to twelve," doesn't have quite the same ring as, "This one goes to eleven."
Re:What the Flip? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If you don't know what this is about (Score:1, Funny)
Re:If you don't know what this is about (Score:5, Funny)
Try telling the vr system what you really think (Score:3, Funny)
I try to maintain pristine language, really I do, but on a really bad day I had to talk to Sprint customer service and the automated voice system really started to get on my nerves the second or third time I had to talk to it and I let slip a few choice non-G-rated phrases. I was transferred to a person faster than any other method I'd tried before or come up with since.
Re:Turn up your Mac (Score:3, Funny)
Somehow, "This one goes to twelve," doesn't have quite the same ring as, "This one goes to eleven."
Re:"senior voice expert"? (Score:2, Funny)
You really need to be more careful. The entire rest of the page was rendered in a warm and fatherly voice thanks to you. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but I kept thinking, "Get back to the music already!"
Re:So... (Score:3, Funny)