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Comcast Voice-Remote Rejects "Dick Van Dyke" Search: "I Cannot Handle That Type of Language"
hollywoodreporter.com ^ | 1/4/19 | Chris Gardner

Posted on 01/05/2019 7:49:57 AM PST by a little elbow grease

Remote got snippy when users asked it to play episodes of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

Comcast's Xfinity X1 Voice Remote is supposed to be state-of-the-art cable TV tech, allowing subscribers to speak relatively complex commands to the cable box. Not only can you ask it to fast-forward, pause and rewind, it can also answer tougher questions ("What's that song on the soundtrack?") and scour the cable guide for specific movies and shows. It’s also award-winning, scoring a 2017 Red Dot Design Award from the international design competition.

But there is one glitch.

Two users have confirmed to THR that the remote gets snippy when asked to play episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show. "Sorry, I cannot handle commands with that type of language," it responds. Commands for "Dick Van Dyke" are now able to be completed after the problem was discovered, according to an Xfinity spokesperson: "We want to provide our customers with a best-in-class voice control experience that is also safe and appropriate for every member of the family. Last month alone, our customers issued 700 million voice commands, and when issues like this arise, we work to address them quickly."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: comcast; dickvandyke; rejection; television; voiceremote
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To: xrmusn

My wife went to high school with a girl named Fonda Diks.


41 posted on 01/05/2019 9:04:49 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Let's Roll

See #33.


42 posted on 01/05/2019 9:08:09 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: a little elbow grease

dick tracy, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. Say good night Dick.


43 posted on 01/05/2019 9:08:21 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: a little elbow grease

A Walmart bakery refused to make a cake for a cum laude graduate.


44 posted on 01/05/2019 9:11:03 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: a little elbow grease

I tried it.Dyke is D***.


45 posted on 01/05/2019 9:12:00 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: a little elbow grease

Our local high school blocked “rock” from their computers. Students couldn’t search rocks for science class or check on the local rock and gem club.


46 posted on 01/05/2019 9:13:03 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill
Geez'whats next? Blocking The Rolling Stones fan club?
47 posted on 01/05/2019 9:16:14 AM PST by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: yarddog

Was an old joke at the time but she told it on Letterman around 1990. He replied “I bet you’re proud of yourself.”


48 posted on 01/05/2019 9:36:54 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: a little elbow grease

I tried to write an on line letter to the editor, but it kept getting rejected, and I was told to clean up my potty language mouth.

After several more tries, I finally traced down the bad words, which were...HTTP, and WWW. and .com. It was a link to another legitimate news site.


49 posted on 01/05/2019 10:09:07 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: traderrob6

I used to work with a man named Richard He_d. Another whose first initials were B. J. M_______.


50 posted on 01/05/2019 10:12:11 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Bell Bouy II

“Also important to me are Financial algorithms out of control”

I agree. I would like to see them build a box where they have to send all stock market transactions. They would be held there for a (truly) random interval of between 0 and 10 seconds after which they are released to the market. I do not think high frequency trading serves any purpose other than to enrich a few Soros types.


51 posted on 01/05/2019 10:16:15 AM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: Soros Billions

“Would not be surprised if it is listening when the microphone button but in NOT pressed as well.”

Mic in remote is actually a pretty secure method of managing when it can eavesdrop on you. The remote does not have the processing or battery power for voice recognition or continuously transmitting a voice stream to a device that does. Not yet, anyway


52 posted on 01/05/2019 10:26:30 AM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: canuck_conservative
"Politically-correct algorithms out of control!"

______________________

I wonder what Comcast Voice-Remote would have said if it were asked for news on that foul-mouthed Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib --

"Mother- *^%#$@".

53 posted on 01/05/2019 10:27:23 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: traderrob6
A friend of mine in Pittsburgh dated a lot of girls.

One was named, Candy Barr (daughter of the Pittsburgh mayor, Joe Barr), and the second was Teeni Dickey.

They both were nice girls with odd names.

His name was Peter Gazinya.

54 posted on 01/05/2019 10:46:51 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: 9YearLurker

Actually, “van” probably was the word that triggered the censorship, since, as everyone knows, vans are huge, gas-guzzling SUV’s that promote climate change and are a threat to the environment.


55 posted on 01/05/2019 11:35:03 AM PST by mikrofon (New Year 2019 BUMP)
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To: beef

Financial algorithms are not investing they are trading.

Let those guys do what they want and leave investors alone,they are screwing up the game,field aint level


56 posted on 01/05/2019 11:39:12 AM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: traderrob6

I knew a stewardess named Fonda Peters. True story!


57 posted on 01/05/2019 12:30:14 PM PST by BatGuano (Ya don't think that I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Bell Bouy II

Investing still involves buying and selling. You do that in the same market as these clowns, who like to locate their servers as close as possible to the exchange. Apparently, the speed of light factors into their trading strategy. If you don’t mind giving them a couple of bucks for doing nothing except being there every time you make a trade, then fine. I am not so tolerant of rent-seeking leaches.


58 posted on 01/05/2019 12:40:29 PM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: BatGuano

Iowa girls high school basketball legend Fonda Dicks, Moravia High School 1969-1972. I was friends with her brother for a time. Very nice girl, and no, her parents didn’t have a clue what they did when they named her.


59 posted on 01/05/2019 12:49:57 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: TXnMA
Hoo boy! Bound to happen:"Social Justice Translation Software"...

Watching reruns of Perry Mason on MeTV with Closed Caption turned on can be funny when words such as "suspicious" and "cocktail" are rendered as "suXXXXious" and "XXXXtail" and characters named "Dick" or "Dickenson" are always referred to as "XXXX" or "XXXXenson". One I found particularly hilarious was when Paul Drake was going to go fishing for bass. . . and the CC rendered it as bXXX. On one episode, Mason commented that some bad guy "got hoist on his own petard." That got rendered as "hoist on his own peXXXX.” ROTFLM"XXX"O!

60 posted on 01/05/2019 1:17:48 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot)
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