Video(?); Kazoo 18

[securityconsultant]

[So if some of you haven't seen Murderbot yet - which isn't surprising, it's been absolutely keeping to itself as much as possible - you've now seen it. It's staring at the video feed with a slight frown, hand half-blocking the view]

All right, this should-

[And as it speaks? The words are popping in around it. Sort of like disjointed subtitles. Its eyes widen imperceptibly, then narrow just as much as its frown deepens.]

That's not supposed to-

[It doesn't actually say those ones aloud- but they pop in anyway. Its frown turns in to a scowl as other words fill the feed - we're talking floating sentences ranging from expressions of annoyance, to is that raw binary? - before the entire message cuts off.]




((OOC; This is related to this bit of schenanigins; feel free to poke ICly or OOCly if you're interested in getting involved!))

Comments

[promiselisting]

[ Eh she's not all that fussed about the covered camera. She gets it really, privacy. There's not much of it on this train. ]

So like... speech-to-text? Or thought-to-text?

[ The latter one would honestly be just beyond the capabilities of even her time, even, but still cool. And interesting. And maybe something she could help out with! ]

[securityconsultant]

Text, period. There'd be a keyboard for most people.

[Beat]

I don't need one, generally.

[promiselisting]

[ Squints. Squiiiiiiiints ]

... are you a sentient computer program or something?

[ LOOK YOU WOULDN'T EVEN BE THE FIRST ONE SHE'S MET IF YOU WERE ]

[securityconsultant]

No.

[SAID QUICKLY]

slight strikers spoips

[promiselisting]

Okay.

[ She doesn't sound... entirely convinced but if everybody's been isekaied here she doesn't know. ]

I mean, no judgement if you are. One of my friends is a sentient AI living in one of my best friend's phone. But I guess you could also be from some far off future where humans have gone all transhumanist/cyborg or something.

Unless you're an alien. Sorry if you're an alien.

[ No judgement there either, unless you're a cryptic troll about it like certain unnamed parties. ]

Either way uh, I can try to help with the text thing if you want? I'm a pretty good programmer actually.

[securityconsultant]

I'm not an alien. [The rest of it- it's. Just. Not going to touch.] Just. I'm me.

And- I don't know. This is complicated, even for me.

[promiselisting]

[ Good for you MB, assert that identity. Even if it makes what you are all the more suspicious. ]

Well, the more people cracking at it, the better then. More people, more tries to figure out what works and what doesn't. We can be each other's ducks if nothing else.