VIDEO: BBC's WATCHDOG MOANING ABOUT BRAIN TRAINING NOT RECOGNISING NORTHERN ACCENTS
Staggering sensationalism from the BBC, here, as it criticises Nintendo’s Brain Training for not recognising the odd squawks and weirdly-shaped vowels of people from parts of the UK the trains don’t go to more than once a day.
WARNING: Contains Rory Bremner.
You can’t blame Nintendo. Have you ever tried talking to a taxi driver in one of the regions? Full, hilarious transcript on the BBC’s site.
filed in Uncategorized on Feb.05, 2008
February 5th, 2008 on 11:57 am
Yellah. Yellah! YELLAH!
February 5th, 2008 on 11:59 am
What a load of bollocks!
I’m from Barnsley and have quite a broad accent but I’ve never had any problems.
February 5th, 2008 on 12:04 pm
The most annoying thing is the fact he kept calling it a “DS Nintendo”. Sigh.
February 5th, 2008 on 12:05 pm
serves them right. for being northern.
February 5th, 2008 on 12:09 pm
stupid CUNTS at the BBC. wtf is a ‘DSNintendo’ anyway? Stupid smug, smarmy Nicky Campbell CUNT. Is everyone at the BBC female or over 50?
CUNTS.
February 5th, 2008 on 1:26 pm
Serves them all right for buying the pile of shit in the first place. They should’ve bought an ACTUAL PROPER game instead.
The Scousers and Welsh will be moaning about it next.
Then what!
February 5th, 2008 on 1:35 pm
Kawashima: So, I’ve managed to make passable voice recognition software work at a suitable speed for gaming and with small enough demands to work on a portable console. Voice regonition is one of the greatest computing challenges so to be honest I’m quite pleased with myse-
Campbell: Does it recognize French?
Kawashima: No, it’s only really designed to –
Campbell: The French are humans too you racist. What about a leper, who’s lips are falling off what would he do?
Kawashima: I don’t think it would work as it’s-
Campbell: He’s also Jewish
Kawashima: -not designed to cope with that.
Campbell: I DON’T BELIEVE WHAT I’M HEARING!
February 5th, 2008 on 2:49 pm
I hear what you’re saying – most of the Taxi drivers up here are from Pakistan, so it’s no shock!
February 5th, 2008 on 3:11 pm
I am much more annoyed by its insistence that the first part of a 4 is a 2 and I’m wrong again.
February 5th, 2008 on 3:22 pm
“So I’m saying BALOOOOO BALOOOOO and it’s not recognising what I’m saying. And then I say YERLA YERLA and it’s still not recognising it.”
February 5th, 2008 on 4:21 pm
I nearly punched the screen watching that. Had to turn it off. What a cock-end. DSNintendo? Twat. I mean, for fuck’s sake moan about something worth moaning about. Or, in fact, just piss off.
I forgot to take my pills this morning, clearly.
Sorry.
xpedy – kind of like an X Factor watching paedophile… or something.
February 5th, 2008 on 5:12 pm
Mor importantly:
How the hell did they expect any of the voices to be recognised in their “test” when they WERE IN A NOISY STREET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.
(The fact I have posted here doesn’t mean I’m any less angry with Zorg’s pie stealing antics)
February 5th, 2008 on 5:30 pm
Nicky Campbell needs to bugger off back to the Wheel of Fortune where the worst that can happen is Jenny Powell turns the wrong letter over.
Campbell will have a fit when he discovers quadriplegics cannot play on Sports Wii or Fit Wii on the Wii Nintendo.
February 5th, 2008 on 5:58 pm
The pie pictures were not stolen. They were emailed to me. Don’t make me go through the effort on print-screening the message as proof.
February 5th, 2008 on 7:07 pm
can’t understand a single word those pikey northern types are saying, where are the sub-titles?
February 5th, 2008 on 7:28 pm
Somewhat relevant:
http://theslackerz.com/index.php?Page=30
February 5th, 2008 on 8:07 pm
Someone should point out to Ross/Bremner that when he’s sitting there yelling “wed/red”, he’s supposed to be saying “black”.
And he needs some better impressions. Oh yeah, let’s hear how John Major would say it, grandad. How about a Rhianna impression?
February 5th, 2008 on 9:46 pm
I watched that video on my Monitor ViewSonic.
I am more offended for the mute people.
This happened the same on Tom Clancy for the Xbox Microsoft, that was actually a good game.
February 5th, 2008 on 11:38 pm
You’re supposed to hold the thing close to your face to use the microphone – those TV dudes are holding it as far away from their face as they can like they’re afraid it will bite, no wonder it’s not working.
Also, it’s a pretty cruel joke that brain training is targeted at people stupid enough to believe that playing a shitty game will make them smarter.
February 6th, 2008 on 3:39 am
The ‘DSNINTENDO’ has built in voice recognition?
Wait… It has a built in microphone… Is it not the software that would have the voice recognition?
February 6th, 2008 on 6:16 am
Britain has the most varied amount of accents in the world per population and accents can even be distinct to villages in the North East… just ask Wearside Jack the porkie pie telling Mackum!!!
February 6th, 2008 on 10:44 am
I wouldn’t worry too much. Watchdog relies on galvanising the rhetorical gripings of decadent consumers in order to get paid. That said, a few points must be raised. The reason it didn’t work in the middle of Trafalgar Square at midday was because of the pervading and extremely noisy street ambience of London. And also because they shoved a computer into the faces of aging Londoners with likely little or no explanation as to what to do, and expect them to get it right straight away (when Bremner couldn’t even get his shit head round it, and they were probably paying him a grand for showing his fat face) Their argument is invariably biased against the ‘big boys’, because they don’t really have a political standpoint. As for Bremner, you know he told Campbell to ask for a John Major impression. There’s no point in doing impressions of people with nondescript voices like major. It was a shit impression anyway. Solution is, just don’t watch Watchdog because it’s shite telly. Mind you, it’s a laugh. Do what you want.
February 6th, 2008 on 11:19 am
I’m from the good end of the country and my nephew’s DS still can’t understand half of what anyone says so it’s now banned from my house because i’m sick of everyone shouting BLUE BLUE BLUUUUU on a saturday morning when i’ve got a hangover.
Word Verification : ilkcib can be substituted for the word “blue” in brain training with no negative effect, it still doesn’t fucking understand!
February 6th, 2008 on 4:11 pm
> Campbell will have a fit when he discovers quadriplegics cannot play on Sports Wii or Fit Wii on the Wii Nintendo.
Being from Scotland, Campbell probably thinks that the DS is the “Wii Nintendo”
February 6th, 2008 on 11:33 pm
If I ever met Nicky Campbell in the street I’d kick his cunt clean off.
February 7th, 2008 on 6:38 am
Hardly surprising is it? The BBC is run by a bunch of middle-class, home-counties, Cambridge educated, monkeys, who “did a little acting” at Uni and thought it might be a “jolly wheeze” to go into TV. They all think the world practically ends where the Midlands starts, just north of Bedford.
When has the BBC ever done anything right, apart from The Young Ones and Bottom?
February 7th, 2008 on 10:33 am
Oh dear – the north/south divide
I thought that UK:R and it’s readers had it a bit more about them than this.
Anybody got any good ‘My Mother-In-Law’ jokes?
February 7th, 2008 on 11:50 am
Pissing me off is the fact that they just don’t seem to understand…
Devices DON’T WORK like in the adverts! It won’t hear you if you hold it a metre from your mouth. And it WILL “accepting different wurds!” because it’s not a fucking HUMAN! I could go on… what has happened to WatchDog seriously! It used to catch pedos nicking your money instead of fixing window fittings, but now they just don’t understand consumer electronics all over us. Long post is long