but how would ralf prefer the delivery, by sending it on a car down the autobahn, getting it from station to station back to düsselsdorf city or on a bike on the tour de france?
Today is the 39th anniversary of the event shown in this historic video. Thanks to everyone who took the dream of augmentative communication and, over the years have delivered it to people throughout the world who needed it. Let's celebrate with a.....pizza!
Professor Eulenberg, was this a predecessor pro-type system to the one Steven Hawking's is currently using? I am doing a research on predecessor systems to his current system. Thank you.
Ironic & funny when one of the first things the computer says is "Please be patient...." as it cuts the Pizza guy's sentence off... that part makes me laugh every time.
None of them would believe if we said there would be hundreds of thousands people viewing this on their MicroComputers through their wireless sound emitting devices
oh god this reminds me of the time me and a friend who had that once voice synthesizer for the Commodore 64 (the one that used the SID chip) ordered a pizza. It was an awful speech synthesis system as far as over the phone went so we had to phrase it like "Helloh Can we order a pitzsah?". Good times.
Congrats to you John Eulenberg and Jerome Jackson on being the first to develop and implement a prosthesis system that could actually be used in a real world setting outside of a lab! Fantastic!
It's amazing to see how far we've come, and where it all started. "Maybe someday we'll all use computers to communicate" - it's odd to think there was a time when we didn't. I can't even imagine what Mr. Sherman felt having accomplished something he might never have thought possible. Congrats on your 36 year anniversary of making history. Just another moment that makes me proud to be a Spartan. It was very nice meeting you today, Thanks for sharing, Jorden
I love how scared the 2nd guy was when he explained that he was using a device to help him speak then the guy operating the computer deliberately interrupted him a couple times as payback lol
I don't believe those were deliberate interruptions. He was already keying in commands for the next statement, and the time lag of entering the command on a 1974 computer overlapped with the man speaking real time on a landline telephone.
What I learned about this video: Trust the process. Be patient, 'coz you'll never know if you will be part of the history so don't hung up the phone. But seriously, if all those who cannot speak/talk today can afford the modern alexander gadget imagine how many people will be at ease. I have one autistic brother who cannot totally speak, he just hums, he is pwd, and it's so hard for me and my family to communicate with him, sometimes he is frustrated, sometimes irritated, and we cannot figure if he is hungry or he wants something. This is just a random thought... Thank goodness to all those people who are doing their best for not giving up, trying something innovative, and being creative. Am sure the next generation of creativity will help improve the society and humanity. "Teamwork makes the dream work." - RM of BTS
When the pizza employee tried to explain himself for hanging up on the computer earlier, the computer cut him off rudely and angrily sounding. Haha. Perfect.
I would be so scared! I think I would have nightmares for eons after a situation like this! I would be so worried that the world was being taken over by technological alien overlords or something!!!
I am pretty sure it's the lag of the computer turning the typed words into audible speech. Remember this is 1974 computing technology. Calculators were still a big deal.
In this day and age, delivery orders are done for many places through a website or a mobile app. So it doesn't matter if you're speech-impaired. But this video dates back to the 70s, and everything is done by voice phone calls. I actually prefer doing it online, because it's easy for me to key in an order, and faster than talking to a person, and it's in writing, so I know they won't hear me wrong.
Como Técnico eletrônico, fico impressionado como naquela ocasião os sintetizadores digitais de voz já eram realidade.... Não eram simples conversores AD analógico /digital. Esse experimento foi feito no dia e ano do meu nascimento. Incrível.
They could've at least videotaped this historic pizza when it was delivered and consumed. Or even preserved it in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View!
The guy typing had a legit condition called Moebius syndrome, which causes facial paralysis leaving the patient unable to speak clearly or at all. I think they wanted to have a person with a real disability to type on the computer, to demonstrate a proof of concept that the system is for people with disabilities.
this is amazing. AMAZING. I just watched the new google assistant feature that makes appointments and the entire thing. So I remember I once watch this. So great, so amazing...
not gonna lie i’m a gen z so i’m used to voice synthesis being a thing but if i were working at a pizza place in the 70’s and heard this on the other line i’d probably be pretty terrified but also simultaneously amazed. i really wish i could have been there to be amazed by this kind of thing rather than being so used to it all
I was fascinated with synthetic speech when I was a kid, as I discovered the TRS-80 Voice Synthesizer in the late 70s. It paved the way for the Voice Internet Service that I am doing now that reads email and web pages over the phone. The Domino's guys obviously hadn't come across a person ordering a pizza with a speech synthesizer, and didn't understand they had to wait for the caller to type stuff out.
@@AyyyGabagool he is not part of the computer science team, he's just a regular person who probably at that time in history had little experience with typing.
@Leavewe - Possibly, though typing predates computers by quite a while. The typewriter was invented in 1878; nearly a century before this recording was made.
Joshua: Shall we play a game? David Lightman: Oh! Jennifer: [giggles] I think it missed him. David Lightman: Yeah. Weird isn't it? Jennifer: Yeah. David Lightman: [typing] Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War? Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess? [Jennifer laughs] David Lightman: [typing] Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. Joshua: Fine.
See? Many things were invented long before someone did that on UA-cam. :P BTW first I've thought of when hearing the voice: Kraftwerk - Die Mensch Maschine. What language was that synth programmed in?
"Tuesday 4 December 1974?" When I saw that, my antennae immediately deployed. Um... the third was on a WEDNESDAY. Or, maybe, did this all happen on Tuesday, December the THIRD? Was it even a pizza pie? Maybe the first order was for bagels. Did it even happen? Once snared, it's difficult to escape the shadow of doubt...
It helped the receiver of the caller to explain what was going on. Few people had heard a voice like that at the time
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974), Kraftwerk - Ananassymphonie (1973)
@@EberKlaushartinger Hardly 'everyone' could be expected to understand. I imagine a lot of places would hang up even these days.
@@EberKlaushartinger because everybody on the west coast listened to an obscure west german music group
Kraftwerk members trying to order a pizza
I'd like to order a pizza.... STOP RADIOACTIVITYYYYY :D
but how would ralf prefer the delivery, by sending it on a car down the autobahn, getting it from station to station back to düsselsdorf city or on a bike on the tour de france?
Stephan Hawkins trying to order under age hookers.
@@Pedro1745 they would get it delivered to their ohm sweet ohm!
"Ok. We just didn't understand what was going on he-"
"I'D LIKE TO ORDER A PEE-TSAH."
People in the 70s were sure laid back
Dude, weed and sex was plentiful. 😂
@@Certifiable I think LSD was the main thing
It was the mid '70's, so......COCAINE!!!
@@raymondkitchen6137 no
@@raymondkitchen6137 Coke doesn't make you laid back
"Hello I would like to order a pizza"
"No"
"Why"
"Because you are John Madden"
aeiou
+Emmett Krantz aeiou
aeiou?
"It's you again, Steven Hawking?" :q
Hoses!
If only we could track down that pizza guy and give him some sort of reward.
Like a pizza? :J
Gonna be honest, he sounds like he would be awful at making pizza.
He's probably dead now.
His son who took over the shop got BTC for a pizza years later.......
Spaghettios someone born in the 2020s is probably dead now
"Can you spell that?"
"Yes"
.....
"Would you spell that please"
I FFF lost it
Today is the 39th anniversary of the event shown in this historic video. Thanks to everyone who took the dream of augmentative communication and, over the years have delivered it to people throughout the world who needed it. Let's celebrate with a.....pizza!
+John Eulenberg were you the guy in the black rims? congrats on this bold step for PizzaS
Professor Eulenberg, was this a predecessor pro-type system to the one Steven Hawking's is currently using? I am doing a research on predecessor systems to his current system. Thank you.
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Pizza time
He must have been high as fuck to not be phased by a computer ordering pizza.
Especially in 1974
He was told it's a human using a device to help with communication. He still was quite suspicious.
I love that poor guy that keeps getting interrupted
Ironic & funny when one of the first things the computer says is "Please be patient...." as it cuts the Pizza guy's sentence off... that part makes me laugh every time.
If it wasnt for these people we wouldnt be where we are technologically.
So amazing.
DAAAAISY, DAAAAAISY! GIVE ME YOUR ANSWER, DO!
Please I. Going half crazy
I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
I like this reference
it won't be a STUEEYLISH MAREEJ.
i CEHHHNT aFFORD A CAEREEJ.
i´m half crazy
I love how the guy taking the order just says “oki”
Apparently pizza prank calls arent new
Not a prank a test
I believe he's referring to the first 3 calls being hung up.
666 😘
Дочь Дьявола 🤡
Jndunedunxenuexnuxeunxenucnuecnucehnecnh siu mkkkkkkkk
My favorite part is:
- Say goodbye, Alexander
- Goodbye, Alexander.
Cezar Pokorski Yeah, Alexander's such a joker! 😁
Classic!
-Say goodbye Caroline.
-Goodbye, Caroline.
-She is a gem.
@@deftcoleman0552 Portal 2.
I love how the pizza guy sounds so tired and confused
None of them would believe if we said there would be hundreds of thousands people viewing this on their MicroComputers through their wireless sound emitting devices
oh god this reminds me of the time me and a friend who had that once voice synthesizer for the Commodore 64 (the one that used the SID chip) ordered a pizza. It was an awful speech synthesis system as far as over the phone went so we had to phrase it like "Helloh Can we order a pitzsah?". Good times.
+Daniël's Tech & Music Channel True. Nothing beats DECtalk, though.
Macintalk!
Remember
I pranked someone using speech synthesis from a Bondwell CP/M computer, must have been somewhere around 1984.
@@volvo480 oop
I‘m laughing so hard on how the computer cuts the second guy off several times. The audacity! 🤣
Lol ikr
$6.25 in 1974 is a bit expensive.
Yeah, the pizza was only actually $2 plus 75c per minute taking the order 😁
Congrats to you John Eulenberg and Jerome Jackson on being the first to develop and implement a prosthesis system that could actually be used in a real world setting outside of a lab! Fantastic!
Shockingly good sound recording dude
It's amazing to see how far we've come, and where it all started.
"Maybe someday we'll all use computers to communicate" - it's odd to think there was a time when we didn't. I can't even imagine what Mr. Sherman felt having accomplished something he might never have thought possible.
Congrats on your 36 year anniversary of making history. Just another moment that makes me proud to be a Spartan.
It was very nice meeting you today,
Thanks for sharing,
Jorden
Who would have thought that 38 years later, Domino’s would have an app featuring a Japanese pop star with a computerized voice?
I love how scared the 2nd guy was when he explained that he was using a device to help him speak
then the guy operating the computer deliberately interrupted him a couple times as payback lol
I don't believe those were deliberate interruptions. He was already keying in commands for the next statement, and the time lag of entering the command on a 1974 computer overlapped with the man speaking real time on a landline telephone.
I have moebius syndrome, and this is great. I was born in 1977 and this was just 3 years before I was born!
Prank call in the name of science
What I learned about this video:
Trust the process. Be patient, 'coz you'll never know if you will be part of the history so don't hung up the phone. But seriously, if all those who cannot speak/talk today can afford the modern alexander gadget imagine how many people will be at ease. I have one autistic brother who cannot totally speak, he just hums, he is pwd, and it's so hard for me and my family to communicate with him, sometimes he is frustrated, sometimes irritated, and we cannot figure if he is hungry or he wants something.
This is just a random thought... Thank goodness to all those people who are doing their best for not giving up, trying something innovative, and being creative. Am sure the next generation of creativity will help improve the society and humanity.
"Teamwork makes the dream work." - RM of BTS
That minimum-wage worker must have freaked listening to a robot's voice. History in the making.
When the pizza employee tried to explain himself for hanging up on the computer earlier, the computer cut him off rudely and angrily sounding. Haha. Perfect.
that was an awesome video. I see Domino's blew it back then as they do today. pizza was expensive back then too I see.
"Would you like to order a pizza?"
"JooOOOOoooOOhn MAAADDeeeEEEEN!"
Mind blowing. I was 1 year old when this was done. Now any Macintosh could do this with ease, but imagine the people hearing this then.
I would be so scared! I think I would have nightmares for eons after a situation like this! I would be so worried that the world was being taken over by technological alien overlords or something!!!
I am pretty sure it's the lag of the computer turning the typed words into audible speech. Remember this is 1974 computing technology. Calculators were still a big deal.
Quite interesting to see, and I love the old style computerized voice.
The video itself is pretty interesting and cool, but the song at the end is hilariously good for this topic :D
In this day and age, delivery orders are done for many places through a website or a mobile app. So it doesn't matter if you're speech-impaired. But this video dates back to the 70s, and everything is done by voice phone calls. I actually prefer doing it online, because it's easy for me to key in an order, and faster than talking to a person, and it's in writing, so I know they won't hear me wrong.
today it's like, screw talking, let's make singing holograms!
True.
Well, we already basically perfected talking.
@@cjmurray6096 We perfected language when we invented the words, "yeet," "whom'st'd've," and "bruh"
Como Técnico eletrônico, fico impressionado como naquela ocasião os sintetizadores digitais de voz já eram realidade.... Não eram simples conversores AD analógico /digital.
Esse experimento foi feito no dia e ano do meu nascimento.
Incrível.
Ralf Hütter orders a pizza
The way how he said "hello" oh mah god so adorable
2:57 oh wow
I didn't realise
is that how long it took to generate the voice synthesis?
They could've at least videotaped this historic pizza when it was delivered and consumed. Or even preserved it in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View!
It does seem a pity they chose a two fingered typist for such an historic call!
Cashpot He was actually handicapped.
The guy typing had a legit condition called Moebius syndrome, which causes facial paralysis leaving the patient unable to speak clearly or at all. I think they wanted to have a person with a real disability to type on the computer, to demonstrate a proof of concept that the system is for people with disabilities.
@@AdhamOhm fucking ace man, they had covered all their bases.
this is amazing. AMAZING. I just watched the new google assistant feature that makes appointments and the entire thing. So I remember I once watch this. So great, so amazing...
"it may not be very long before we'll all be using computers to communicate" you guys think she was right?
Nope, never used one in my life!
The pizza dude sounds so exacerbated by this... "Can you Spell that?"... "yes"... pregnant pause... lol....
amazing history, compared to what we have today we are light years into the future.
$6.25 for a pizza! Man, I wish!
I can get a medium pepperoni pizza from Domino's for only $5.99 as a carry out special. 😸
+Gregory Thompson Jr. How about if you made $1.25/hour?
I got a large pizza (16 inch) for less than $5.
In 1974 $6.25 was a lot of money. That's about $30.00 today.
Ever heard of inflation?
GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN! SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
Domino's pizzas are cheaper now than in 1974.
That wasn't Domino's that they ordered though. Dominos was the first place but they hung up on the guy ordering, so they ordered from somewhere else.
they taste like it too.
not gonna lie i’m a gen z so i’m used to voice synthesis being a thing but if i were working at a pizza place in the 70’s and heard this on the other line i’d probably be pretty terrified but also simultaneously amazed. i really wish i could have been there to be amazed by this kind of thing rather than being so used to it all
I was fascinated with synthetic speech when I was a kid, as I discovered the TRS-80 Voice Synthesizer in the late 70s. It paved the way for the Voice Internet Service that I am doing now that reads email and web pages over the phone. The Domino's guys obviously hadn't come across a person ordering a pizza with a speech synthesizer, and didn't understand they had to wait for the caller to type stuff out.
The first soundboard prank.
His patience shows that the last man has a kind heart.
a nice moment in history, thanks for the vid
Welcome to the place where you will buy, chiz pizza.
I'm surprised the pizza guy could even hear the order over the sound of all those nerds patting themselves on the back during the call
"Dominos, hello?"
"𝚑ë𝚕𝙸ô"
That hello was really cute tho
still better than SIRI
Because it's operated by a person :p
Yep
Siri is really a mess
13 years ago the computer was singing DAISY.
LOL "Say goodbye, Alexander" ........ enough time passes for a cup of coffee and taking a sh*t ....... "Goodbye Alexander" xD
Revolutionary talking computer can recreate HUMAN SPEECH.
Lets order a pizza with it
"please be patient" Types with peck and hunt. -.-
I KNOW WTF i WAS DYING
@@AyyyGabagool he is not part of the computer science team, he's just a regular person who probably at that time in history had little experience with typing.
@Leavewe - Possibly, though typing predates computers by quite a while. The typewriter was invented in 1878; nearly a century before this recording was made.
They state that he is disabled.
freshoutofcrabs still, not everybody typed. Typing is usually have been a thing a writer, dictator, or secretary would do, I think.
Joshua: Shall we play a game?
David Lightman: Oh!
Jennifer: [giggles] I think it missed him.
David Lightman: Yeah. Weird isn't it?
Jennifer: Yeah.
David Lightman: [typing] Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
[Jennifer laughs]
David Lightman: [typing] Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua: Fine.
wow. the computer is so cool. i wonder how the computer wil look like in 20 years (1994)
I did not know that text to speech voice was that old
And today we just hate robot calls.
nahhh why the decades year old mic is better than mine
Because things weren't built like potatoes back then.
See? Many things were invented long before someone did that on UA-cam. :P
BTW first I've thought of when hearing the voice: Kraftwerk - Die Mensch Maschine.
What language was that synth programmed in?
The part about this that struck me the most was the 7-digit phone number. Phone numbers haven't had seven digits since I was in kindergarten.
"Say goodbye, Alexander" :D
Pizza place down the street from me has a good sized pizza for $5.36. We live in amazing times.
Part of me really wanted it to turn into a prank call. The computer says something crazy, and all those guys bust out laughing.
Freaking Brilliant! Kudos to the pizza dude who thought out out what was going on!
$6.25 !! THAT was amazing.
Yeah. Can't get a large pizza delivered for less than 20 now.
The way he was interrupting him had me ROFLing.
wow this december (in less than a month from writing this) It will be 45 years since this video was taken. Wow that is crazy
Google: Have a IA with very good expression's, and orders a haircut. Talking computer from 1974: Hold my beer
So much tension.
Wow, Moonbase Alpha looked kinda janky in 1974.
Engineers should have anticipated the questions and had answers ready. Even “yes” took too long to send.
"it may not be long before we all can use computers to communicate" honey, you have no fricking idea
Fun fact: that speach system was actually arin hanson
'Handicapper' is right- his responses were diabolically slow. He didn't seem to have had much keyboard time under his belt anyway...
Is this where the Game Grumps "cheese pizza" joke came from?
No?
oh those dastardly rapscallions, discussing child pornography to no end
*and
And here we are, talking with chat gpt in year 2023
look up ibm-7094 its a robotic mouth or a computer that can sing a song!!!
daisy, daisy
I love how long the delay is after the guy punches in key commands slower than my grandma operating an iPhone.
I had no idea people would be doing pranks like this all the way back in 1974
I can't imagine taking that call, lol.
now we are talking about ai and some shits around these days but these guys ordered pizza using voiceware 49 years ago.
Siri will be proud of Alexander”The computer”
"Tuesday 4 December 1974?"
When I saw that, my antennae immediately deployed.
Um... the third was on a WEDNESDAY. Or, maybe, did this all happen on Tuesday, December the THIRD? Was it even a pizza pie? Maybe the first order was for bagels. Did it even happen? Once snared, it's difficult to escape the shadow of doubt...
the first Arnold prank call ever!!! :)
This is compulsive watching. Amazing.
It's kind of funny that the speed bottleneck there actually seemed to be the human computer operator who didn't know how to type
kraftwerk ordering their pizza be like:
When you order a Domino's Pizza online, it shows you the status of the pizza as it is being made, baked, and delivered.
That guy in glasses - is this Hackerman from "Kung Fury"?
kung fury was made as compilation of 80's in music, games, fashion and films
computer nerds looked like this one and hackerman was just copied
Thank you, Captain Obvious.