I got in a lift in a Glasgow hospital (not voice recognition)shortly after this went out. The buttons were on the outside so you have to select your floor before you enter. A guy got in and said "eleven". Everybody fell about laughing
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. (The Southern General). I done the exact same thing. Daft system. You press your floor and wait for one of 3 lifts. Sometimes for ages.
@@alfiekelly5914 I did the same , thk fk nobody was in lift apart from the Mrs but she kindly pointed it out when someone else got in the lift , pure riddy lol
I'm Scottish and I've seen me yelling at Alexa, just like this. What's more annoying is that it understands my wife perfectly and she has EXACTLY THE SAME ACCENT AS ME.
Having a thick Glasgow accent, I usually get put through to someone "Scotch" or Irish as they'll probably understand you better. One time I got put through to a Welsh guy...we were both fucked then.
Once again thank you. This Scotsman from Edinburgh says thank you. I look forward to your videos and to have one about Scotland is the icing on the cake.
I had this experience in LA at a fast food joint. I asked for milk and had to repeat it several times, trying different ways to say milk. I got pissed off and said to my friend “fuck sake it shouldn’t be this hard to buy coo juice. For those that don’t know a “coo” is slang for a cow. The server then said “ ah milk” Wtf?
I subbed for the beard alone. Mon eh Scotland 🏴! It’s good to see you enjoying Burnistoun. Also glad you understand it, Since majority of people don’t really know what we say most of the time 😂
I've got a Highland accent which is "allegedly" the clearest spoken accent of English in the UK. Absolute nightmare getting voice recognition to work even with my accent.
I'll never forget working in a car dealership on the outskirts of Glasgow and (being the only English man there) being asked to prove to a customer that their voice recognition wasn't faulty 😂
I watched this a couple of years ago. It had me in stitches, in floods of tears, seriously busting a gut laughing, Ans why was it so funny to me, because it's absolutely true, voice communications technology just doesn't do Scottish accents whatsoever, they still sometimes have troubles with my East London accent, well Google And Alexa does anyways. Very funny content EB. Haven't watched or comment on your videos for a week or so, so I hope you and the family are all good, safe and well.
Burnistoun was only ever broadcast on BBC Scotland probably because the London based execs were unable to understand all the colloquialisms used. I'm English and discovered it on You Tube. It is constantly hilarious. As well as the full on humour there is pathos in the relationship of Paul and Walter who run a very unsuccessful mobile ice cream business.
"Try to imagine throwing a 2 litre bottle of ginger over a hundred and fifty metres and landing it dead centre on a target. That target being...a rocket's napper."
Thanks. Brilliant. In 2006 I bought a Motorolla Razor phone with voice recognition. The kids (16 and 18 at the time) pished themselves laughing with me saying 'name dial' 15 or so times getting 'I'm sorry please try again' before it replied 'namr dial, please say the name' only to give me 'I'm sorry, please try again' and put me back to main menu and 'name dial' again. I think it worked once and after working 15yr overseas at that time my accent was not that thick. I put it down to an English Plot ........but I put everything down to that.
I'm from the south west of England, a place called Bristol! I live up north in west Yorkshire now but I've had many issues with voice recognition on the automated system on the phone. My accent is still pretty southern and I constantly have to repeat myself
Spot on my friend - I am multi lingual - being English and worked all around the UK and travelled to most of the US states - your video is best watched with You Tube captions on!! Makes it even funnier IMHO - Thanks - definitely a subscriber if this is an example of your work!! We all need laffs!! Cheers (Ta/Thanks/Merci etc.) .. Andy
Hahah great reaction! Loved Burnistoun. Check out the clip where they don't have enough money for the Chinese takeaway delivery guy - its pants-wettingly funny.
I love this skit! Try anything by the Irish trio Foil Arms and Hog. I love the countries playing Risk, and the rooms having a party. Or poor Oisin’s various struggles w his mum. Or the three monks. The latest is the head command center dealing w a hangover ...
@@katarinawikholm5873 I seen it somewhere and didn't know it was a show, I just thought it was a tik tok or something. I'm now going to find it all for a binge watch. Thank you very much for the info👍
Problem with using tone of voice is that the Scottish accent/tone is deamed aggressive even when taking normally (particularly those of us from the west coast/Glasgow)
I made a phone call to my internet provider and got put through to a call center in bloody India, she couldn't understand a single word i was saying and i couldn't understand a single word she was saying, it was the weirdest phonecall i've ever been involved in, i just had to hang up and there was no point trying to explain to her why i was about to hang up.
Try having to draw a banana to explain to your health care assistant what you want to eat ... only later did it occur to me that I could have googled one to show her ...
You don't need to go so far afield for this to happen. Once I got a call centre in Northern Ireland and what sounded like a nice chap on the other end. Unfortunately he had a Belfast accent you could cut with a knife and I couldn't understand a word he said (literally). In the end, after asking him to repeat things to no avail, I asked if there was anybody there I could speak to who spoke English and he cut me off. I am OK with the Scots: my bank (Royal Bank of Scotland) has a call centre in Edinburgh and that is fine. Mind you, I have watched a lot of Scots comedy shows and I even get the gist of broad Glasga'.
@@allenwilliams1306 In my case it was a Glaswegian (me) tryin to talk to someone from Bombay or some place lol. The Irish i understand as though they are Scottish.
I'm from Glasgow, Alexa has a hit rate of about 25% for what i ask for, for some reason it can't get "wolf" from anyone in my family, even my Mum who at least tries to speak English lol
There is a Scottish woman swearing at Alexa that's worth checking out. I'm an AngloScot, and don't have strongest of accents but Alexa in particular seems to not get when I say certain words.
California, USA because that's where the automated voices come from. The automated ones at least, the ones previous were human recorded and stitched together. A company in the UK before the up rise of smart phones put directory enquires for free which was a great until they had enough data from the dialects across the UK which is many and vast.
I am Scottish living in Oz. I had to choose the number 4 on an automated phone call. Well it had no clue what I said. So had my husband try and he is German. Well, guess what, it did not understand him either.
there used to be a little trick with the older automated systems and sometimes it still works, when you are on hold say the word staff.. sometimes you get put through faster.
They do a sketch about a guy who went into a coma when he drowned as a kid. After his recovery, he discovered that he can read the minds of cats (yup, mad or what?) and often finds himself an unwilling witness to their antics. Anyway, the sketch starts with him going home with a girl he's picked up in a bar and as she goes to make them a drink, her house-cat reveals some truly disturbing information... You will laugh your ass off if you watch it!
It's probably already been suggested, but, as you seem to be able to understand the Scottish/Glaswegian accent, please revue Kevin Bridges. The Bus Stop Joke in particular.
"...what part of America is that, Dublin", ...you from the same part of England as Dick van Dyke?". And when one can't understand the accents why do those who're not understood become suddenly so patriotic and begin to start shouting out the name of our country at the top of our voices, I've done it when I've said to a non English person, " can't you understand English?" Then we go in to big the language up to the point of chanting out England, England, England, England,(repeat 3 more times, then it's ENG-E-LAAAND ENG-ER-LAND!! Double funny video m 🤔🤭😁😃🤣
I got in a lift in a Glasgow hospital (not voice recognition)shortly after this went out. The buttons were on the outside so you have to select your floor before you enter. A guy got in and said "eleven". Everybody fell about laughing
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. (The Southern General). I done the exact same thing. Daft system. You press your floor and wait for one of 3 lifts. Sometimes for ages.
@@alfiekelly5914 I did the same , thk fk nobody was in lift apart from the Mrs but she kindly pointed it out when someone else got in the lift , pure riddy lol
Hahahaha class mate 👍😭😭😭
FREEEEEEDOOOMMMMM 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Proud to be from Glasgow Scotland ❤️❤️❤️
They stupid lift had me goin up and down for ages I ended up takin the stairs 😂😂😂
I'm Scottish and I've seen me yelling at Alexa, just like this. What's more annoying is that it understands my wife perfectly and she has EXACTLY THE SAME ACCENT AS ME.
There is a scene in Lupin (netflix) where it only plays music for the man, but not his wife.
I shout and swear in frustration at Google Home all the time when it won’t broadcast to other speakers in the house- it broadcasts that fine!
Alexa sulks if you shout at her!
As a Glaswegian, I concur! Up yours voice recognition!
As a Glaswegian, I honestly cant say the word eleven now without shouting it exactly like this.
This! But I'm on the east coast of Scotland. This in ingrained in our language now, sake Rab!
🏴💙
Same
Me tae lol
True 🏴
If I had a pound for every time a lift door opens and there's two Scottish guys shouting "freedom!" I'd be a very rich man.
😂😂😂😂😂
The was a Local Authority in Birmingham that, years ago, did a voice recognition telephone system that wouldn't recognise the local accent.
Best Birmingham joke ever:
Q. What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
A. You can't wash your hands in buffalo.
Having a thick Glasgow accent, I usually get put through to someone "Scotch" or Irish as they'll probably understand you better. One time I got put through to a Welsh guy...we were both fucked then.
A Scotsman and a Welshman, both trying to speak English 🤣🤣
I was on the phone eh a Welsh guy n I didny realise how solid of a language barrier there was until he spoke 😂
Once again thank you. This Scotsman from Edinburgh says thank you. I look forward to your videos and to have one about Scotland is the icing on the cake.
I had this experience in LA at a fast food joint. I asked for milk and had to repeat it several times, trying different ways to say milk. I got pissed off and said to my friend “fuck sake it shouldn’t be this hard to buy coo juice. For those that don’t know a “coo” is slang for a cow.
The server then said “ ah milk”
Wtf?
Ah yes!! The story of this Scotsman's life, I'd love a pound for every time I've been through this gig. 🤣😝🏴🏴🏴 Scoooootlaaaaand!!!!✊🏻
I subbed for the beard alone. Mon eh Scotland 🏴! It’s good to see you enjoying Burnistoun. Also glad you understand it, Since majority of people don’t really know what we say most of the time 😂
Being Scottish, I can soo relate 😂😂Im impressed by ur understanding of our accent coz most ppl struggle.Ur laugh is hilarious 😂😂👌xxx
I've got a Highland accent which is "allegedly" the clearest spoken accent of English in the UK. Absolute nightmare getting voice recognition to work even with my accent.
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen this But it’s just as funny as the first time, “Scot squad police chief apologies” is good too
It's true, I'll put an English accent on when I'm dealing with them
I'll never forget working in a car dealership on the outskirts of Glasgow and (being the only English man there) being asked to prove to a customer that their voice recognition wasn't faulty 😂
Same here have to tone down my accent hugely, even more than my 'posh telephone voice'
Aye same, or do a Ewan MacGregor impression
I watched this a couple of years ago. It had me in stitches, in floods of tears, seriously busting a gut laughing, Ans why was it so funny to me, because it's absolutely true, voice communications technology just doesn't do Scottish accents whatsoever, they still sometimes have troubles with my East London accent, well Google And Alexa does anyways.
Very funny content EB.
Haven't watched or comment on your videos for a week or so, so I hope you and the family are all good, safe and well.
Just wait until they ask for floor 6... 'I'm sorry, this unit does not supply that service!'
even the kiwis too !
Having worked at a car dealership near Glasgow I can confirm that the voice recognition in cars struggles 😂👍
Burnistoun was only ever broadcast on BBC Scotland probably because the London based execs were unable to understand all the colloquialisms used. I'm English and discovered it on You Tube. It is constantly hilarious. As well as the full on humour there is pathos in the relationship of Paul and Walter who run a very unsuccessful mobile ice cream business.
The 2 litre bottle of ginger sketch from the same programe had me in tears!
Classic
I loved the quality polis lol the one where they done naked attraction was hilarious as well
One of THEE funniest sketches I have ever seen.. literally tears of laughter by the end
"Try to imagine throwing a 2 litre bottle of ginger over a hundred and fifty metres and landing it dead centre on a target. That target being...a rocket's napper."
'All My Mad Uncles' is a good sketch by these same guys
@Mickey Finn get the handcuffs. AND THE SPOONS!
This is normal behaviour for all Scots when dealing with any voice recognition.
Thanks. Brilliant. In 2006 I bought a Motorolla Razor phone with voice recognition.
The kids (16 and 18 at the time) pished themselves laughing with me saying 'name dial' 15 or so times getting 'I'm sorry please try again' before it replied 'namr dial, please say the name' only to give me 'I'm sorry, please try again' and put me back to main menu and 'name dial' again.
I think it worked once and after working 15yr overseas at that time my accent was not that thick.
I put it down to an English Plot ........but I put everything down to that.
Omg I love this. 💘. You need to watch more
Still Game and Rab C Nesbitt....
Aww bro you found Burniston 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There is another sketch worth watching from this show where the guy gets a sat-nav for his car that comes with his dad's voice.
Was actually thinking of that one myself to be honest. Lol
I'm from the south west of England, a place called Bristol! I live up north in west Yorkshire now but I've had many issues with voice recognition on the automated system on the phone. My accent is still pretty southern and I constantly have to repeat myself
This cracked me up, literal tears
Spot on my friend - I am multi lingual - being English and worked all around the UK and travelled to most of the US states - your video is best watched with You Tube captions on!! Makes it even funnier IMHO - Thanks - definitely a subscriber if this is an example of your work!! We all need laffs!! Cheers (Ta/Thanks/Merci etc.) .. Andy
Hahah great reaction! Loved Burnistoun. Check out the clip where they don't have enough money for the Chinese takeaway delivery guy - its pants-wettingly funny.
YT "Burnistoun no enough money
"
Hilarious and very Scottish!
The Burnistoun 'Quality Polis' sketches are an all time favourite of mine.
pakora man, belter !
@@shrikanthkalyan That wee dugs escaped!
@@RighAlban that had me the first time I saw the sketch! I had tears 😂😂
As a Scotsman I can verify this is accurate.
The struggle is real when your Scottish ! 😂
I know, try saying the name Carl, impossible 😫
I’d say that you nailed the pronunciation, I’m from Fife in Scotland and that’s how I’d say it.
Nice one.been waiting on this since i requested 😂 top bloke !!
I love this skit! Try anything by the Irish trio Foil Arms and Hog. I love the countries playing Risk, and the rooms having a party. Or poor Oisin’s various struggles w his mum. Or the three monks. The latest is the head command center dealing w a hangover ...
Are they the guys who done the speaking Gaelic in the interrogation room skit?
@@RighAlban Oh yes! Inspector Moran! ”Where did you go on your vacation?”
@@katarinawikholm5873 I seen it somewhere and didn't know it was a show, I just thought it was a tik tok or something.
I'm now going to find it all for a binge watch.
Thank you very much for the info👍
@@RighAlban Don’t miss the Northern Ireland one
Problem with using tone of voice is that the Scottish accent/tone is deamed aggressive even when taking normally (particularly those of us from the west coast/Glasgow)
I made a phone call to my internet provider and got put through to a call center in bloody India, she couldn't understand a single word i was saying and i couldn't understand a single word she was saying, it was the weirdest phonecall i've ever been involved in, i just had to hang up and there was no point trying to explain to her why i was about to hang up.
Try having to draw a banana to explain to your health care assistant what you want to eat ... only later did it occur to me that I could have googled one to show her ...
You don't need to go so far afield for this to happen. Once I got a call centre in Northern Ireland and what sounded like a nice chap on the other end. Unfortunately he had a Belfast accent you could cut with a knife and I couldn't understand a word he said (literally). In the end, after asking him to repeat things to no avail, I asked if there was anybody there I could speak to who spoke English and he cut me off. I am OK with the Scots: my bank (Royal Bank of Scotland) has a call centre in Edinburgh and that is fine. Mind you, I have watched a lot of Scots comedy shows and I even get the gist of broad Glasga'.
@@allenwilliams1306 In my case it was a Glaswegian (me) tryin to talk to someone from Bombay or some place lol. The Irish i understand as though they are Scottish.
I can't believe you've found Burniston 😂 brilliant big yin
Please react to phone jacker, I would love to see your reaction to all the different voices :D
it will be great when you get to see this whole show
Try getting through an automated telephone line.....impossible if you are scottish 😭🤣
No one understands us
Lmao, I can’t voice recognition either... even my poshest discord accent fails 🤣🤣
thanks for reacting to this Eclectic.it's cracks me up everytime,they do super funny skits.BEARDS RULE.;D
Hahaha you found burnistoun! 😆 enjoy looking through all the sketches they do
I was shown that video within a week of moving to Scotland… FREEDOM!!!!
I remembered a Two Ronnies sketch from when I was a kid the ice cream flavours sketch might be worth checking out
Scotland in the house 🏴
Alexa and Siri are the same for us in Scotland
You have a laugh we can laugh with, not at. Really enjoy your clips. 😂
I'm from Glasgow, Alexa has a hit rate of about 25% for what i ask for, for some reason it can't get "wolf" from anyone in my family, even my Mum who at least tries to speak English lol
Scottish drink drive test is another brilliant one
Quality Polis
There is a Scottish woman swearing at Alexa that's worth checking out. I'm an AngloScot, and don't have strongest of accents but Alexa in particular seems to not get when I say certain words.
As a scot I relate to this greatly but funnily Alexa works fine for me. Much to the annoyance of everyone else at parties :D
Phone jacked pretending to be be an automated response to cinema ticket buyers is brilliant, you should react to it.
I meant Phone Jacker, sorry.
I think you’d enjoy - The Most Incompetent Letting Agent EVER - do pop it on the list!
Chewin' the Fat's Scottish Air Traffic Controllers is a good one
remember -Bad Robots- sometimes that was hilarious
I'm Scottish and gave up trying to use the voice text option on my phone. It really is a problem
California, USA because that's where the automated voices come from. The automated ones at least, the ones previous were human recorded and stitched together.
A company in the UK before the up rise of smart phones put directory enquires for free which was a great until they had enough data from the dialects across the UK which is many and vast.
When you have to talk slowly and put on a "telephone voice" to talk to English people when you work in a call centre
I am Scottish living in Oz. I had to choose the number 4 on an automated phone call. Well it had no clue what I said. So had my husband try and he is German. Well, guess what, it did not understand him either.
His laugh is infectious
Classic, Burniston is superb 😂🏴
Please react to more Burniston clips please 😁👍🏴
UP the road 😂
I watch this all the time cos its so funny. We have a great sense of humour. Try Burnistoun “Nae Rolls”. 😂😂😂
The other Burnistoun clip that is hilarious is Sarcasmaholics. Im always in hysterics at that one
My wife always gets straight through to wherever when talking to voice activated phones, I, on the other hand, just smash the £#@!@#@!*!!! phone!
It's a short sketch but 'Burnistoun Suck on this' is brilliant. Quality Polis!! 😂
I knew you would like that sketch
You gotta watch more Burnistoun
It's not just Scottish. The Kiwi accent does not do well in similar circumstances either.
there used to be a little trick with the older automated systems and sometimes it still works, when you are on hold say the word staff.. sometimes you get put through faster.
Some real Scottish comedy gold scotch and wry and you have the best laugh I have ever heard 😁😁
Great video as always EB
Well the best one is when they get 2 people from the audience they do the sound effects etc etc
Alexa. siri, none work for Scots. As a Scotsman I feel their pain!
Had to put on an American accent so my mates Xbox would understand me when I worked out there 🤣 xbaax, xbaax, fucking XBAAX
They do a sketch about a guy who went into a coma when he drowned as a kid. After his recovery, he discovered that he can read the minds of cats (yup, mad or what?) and often finds himself an unwilling witness to their antics. Anyway, the sketch starts with him going home with a girl he's picked up in a bar and as she goes to make them a drink, her house-cat reveals some truly disturbing information...
You will laugh your ass off if you watch it!
Glad you've found Burnistoun...... 'Doogie and Dougie Flaps. Cat Flaps and Flat Caps.'... Should be next"👍
Burnistoun. The denim jaisket sketch is an other belter.
Scotland yass
It's probably already been suggested, but, as you seem to be able to understand the Scottish/Glaswegian accent, please revue Kevin Bridges. The Bus Stop Joke in particular.
perfect. just perfect 🤣🤣
Burnistouns Jolly Boy John is worth having a look at as well.
We had this problem in the end we got it to go to ten and walked up the stairs
Soon as I phone a number and get a voice saying "please say the name of the person" or please select an option" I hang up.
Jolly boy John....squirrel in a bunnet lol
but the computer on the Enterprise could understand Scotty!!! And Checkov
Every time I hear 11 I think of this
Don't worry about your pronunciation, they don't worry in Burniston :D
A quick recommendation / suggestion: Burnistoun - The Rhythm of Life :)
You should check out 'Glesga cowboys' on chewing the fat. Absolutely brilliant.
"...what part of America is that, Dublin", ...you from the same part of England as Dick van Dyke?".
And when one can't understand the accents why do those who're not understood become suddenly so patriotic and begin to start shouting out the name of our country at the top of our voices, I've done it when I've said to a non English person, " can't you understand English?" Then we go in to big the language up to the point of chanting out England, England, England, England,(repeat 3 more times, then it's ENG-E-LAAAND ENG-ER-LAND!!
Double funny video m
🤔🤭😁😃🤣
The pain is real 🏴
😂😂😂😂hilarious but dangerous is there was a fire
Awe c'mon ffs
You should also check out the Burnistoun “2 litre bottle of ginger” (soda) sketch.
Sometimes I need to ask my husband (who has an English accent) to translate my Alexa requests for me 🤦🏼
Sorry mate but I have to say ... I always watch your videos while I'm in the toilet .... it help me get through the horrific event
This is great .new to me.looks forward to your next surprise.
Have you seen phone jacker! Reminded me of that