I love this guys youtube channel. He takes apart a whole bunch of old and new electronics and talks about how they work. I know almost NONE of what he is talking about but it's pretty neat just looking at how this stuff is made. Long video though, but I think it's worth it.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjoWMA5d84[/media]
I'm sure that the rest of it is very interesting but I just had to stop. What is going on with that voice? He sounds like he's constantly talking down on you, putting on a high pitched voice like he's talking to a two year old.
[QUOTE=zerotwelve;40153218]I'm sure that the rest of it is very interesting but I just had to stop. What is going on with that voice? He sounds like he's constantly talking down on you, putting on a high pitched voice like he's talking to a two year old.[/QUOTE]
It becomes one of the reasons you watch his videos
late seventies
EARLY EIGHTIES
[QUOTE=zerotwelve;40153218]I'm sure that the rest of it is very interesting but I just had to stop. What is going on with that voice? He sounds like he's constantly talking down on you, putting on a high pitched voice like he's talking to a two year old.[/QUOTE]
hey man he just might have a sexual attraction towards dismantling hard drives no big deal
[QUOTE=zerotwelve;40153218]I'm sure that the rest of it is very interesting but I just had to stop. What is going on with that voice? He sounds like he's constantly talking down on you, putting on a high pitched voice like he's talking to a two year old.[/QUOTE]
Some Australians just have a weird tone like this.
It's like I'm watching Art Attack
[QUOTE=zerotwelve;40153218]I'm sure that the rest of it is very interesting but I just had to stop. What is going on with that voice? He sounds like he's constantly talking down on you, putting on a high pitched voice like he's talking to a two year old.[/QUOTE]
It just sounds like he REALLY wants to tell you about it.
[QUOTE=zerotwelve;40153218]I'm sure that the rest of it is very interesting but I just had to stop. What is going on with that voice? He sounds like he's constantly talking down on you, putting on a high pitched voice like he's talking to a two year old.[/QUOTE]
read this before starting the video and expecting something completely different like some youtube channel with a speech impediment
but nope, just EEVBlog
this guy's brilliant, the accent and inflection is sometimes seen in aussies over yonder east
[QUOTE=K1ngo64;40153281]Some Australians just have a weird tone like this.[/QUOTE]
do they also pause to read each word on a script after the previous word is spoken
because that got on my nerves REAL quick
I got about 14 seconds in and had to scroll down to see if anyone else had noticed how annoying his voice is.
[editline]4th April 2013[/editline]
It gets better further in.
He's like the Steve irwin of computers.
I seriously cant stand his voice
[QUOTE=daijitsu;40153558]do they also pause to read each word on a script after the previous word is spoken
because that got on my nerves REAL quick[/QUOTE]
but.. he doesn't? give a timecode example of when he's doing that, I can't find any
[QUOTE=zerotwelve;40153218]I'm sure that the rest of it is very interesting but I just had to stop. What is going on with that voice? He sounds like he's constantly talking down on you, putting on a high pitched voice like he's talking to a two year old.[/QUOTE]
he does that annoying jeremy clarkson thing where he takes a break and says the "confusing words" slower and at a higher pitch.
After I got past his voice, it was a really interesting take down. It still blows my mind at how complicated this HDD is, despite it being based off a model from the 70/80's
Not this guy again. His mac teardown was full-retard. There was so much "I don't know what this does".
by the way [url=http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3390.html]for proper information on this disk, IBM has you covered.[/url]
Also, in IBM terms it's called DASD ("Dass-Dee").
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;40155033]he does that annoying jeremy clarkson thing where he takes a break and says the "confusing words" slower and at a higher pitch.[/QUOTE]
Clarkson's voice is fine. And his speech is fine. He does that for presenting, in interviews he speaks normally. Because it doesn't sound like he has cancer of the entire brain.
This guy's speech pattern is so fucking annoying because he starts talking and stops and our brain just trips over itself waiting for the next word to hear. It's like someone walking down the street, you're following them and they just randomly stop turn around, jump up and down and sprint down the street for 10 feet and fall on their face.
It's difficult to follow. The accent is fine, it's the pacing that is extremely hard to listen to.
[QUOTE=Em See;40155021]but.. he doesn't? give a timecode example of when he's doing that, I can't find any[/QUOTE]
look at him
and just
read everything he says
like each breath
mid... uhhhhh... [i]sentence[/i]
is a -NEW-
line
*excited short breathing with a smile like I just landed a dismount
it's really short cuts but the pacing is unbearable, it's like he's listing off words instead of speaking, all the while glancing to [his left] of the camera to read his cue card. He obviously has cool stuff to tell me but my mind isn't allowing me to process it in a natural manner
that's really interesting; everything he does is unscripted and off the cuff
he literally gets something and films himself talking about whatever (interview, teardowns, the mail he gets from viewers, his own design work), then cuts it down to size
most interesting part is I've never noticed any off pacing, I mean he does have quite an accent which includes putting emphasis and inflection on words I might not myself, but it isn't anything I haven't heard before
[editline]5th April 2013[/editline]
[video=youtube;m7ERMu825m4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ERMu825m4[/video]
[editline]5th April 2013[/editline]
actually, looking into it - it seems like the majority of his viewership is not american (he gets a metric fucktonne of postage from aussies and europeans)
maybe the accent is just one that a lot of americans dislike or something
Most of my videos are done unscripted, even some of my reviews, and I speak in a flowing manner, if I stutter I stop, and then resume when I figure out my thought. Maybe he doesn't habitually plan out sentences in his mind? Maybe he speaks on a word to word basis? Maybe that's just how he learned? I mean he seems like a perfectly nice intelligent guy, but the flow of words makes it very difficult to listen to.
Reminds me of some schools here in the US teach words to young students, but no phonics. So people simply have a dictionary of words but now how new words might form or be written, or how to say words they might not know. It's just a fundamental difference. Perhaps when he learned to speak differently than the people I'm used to hearing. His accent is completely not the issue to me.
On the other hand, like 85% of my media intake is from outside the US, and have plenty of subscriptions from Australia, so perhaps his region just interprets their words and pacing differently. If anything it's a very interesting thing.
Edit: The other thing is his somehow-magical constant inflection. Some how he's going up in octaves nonstop yet, he's still at the same tone. It's strange.
Again, he seems nice and intelligent obviously since he has loads of good content, but I can't listen to him :(
its a genuinely interesting phenomenon, I swear it must be an accent related (cultural? that kind of puts it a bit broadly) thing - to me his constant inflection of words just makes it sound like he's very interested in what he's talking about.
I've heard plenty of aussies talking like this and I highly doubt its related to his english education or Dave himself - probably just locality, family and whatever else contributes to an accent
the part I find most odd is the way you guys just "can't listen to him" due to how annoying/hard to follow his way of talking is - the closest I can compare to that (in terms of annoyance) is listening to some of the more young, nasally youtubers
might have something to do with this kind of accent not having many parallels in the USA, or that the closest parallels don't exactly paint it in a good light
I mention pacing a lot but the flow of words he has feels very inconsistent so my mind keeps predicting when he's going to say the next word and then it's off by like .5 of a second, but because he's inconsistent with it, my mind is changing speeds about when he will speak and when it won't.
Reminds me of those NPC's in games that walk too fast for you to walk, but not fast enough for you to run, so you're constantly switching between running and walking to stay pace sort of. Again I don't necessarily think it's the accent, because I've heard many Australians and they're speech patterns sound "normal" or consistent to what I'd expect. So I definitely think it might be regional for him and his family that he grew up with.
well yeah, most aussie accents aren't very strong and I hear most americans similarly - but like you guys have people with much stronger accents, we do too, and while I don't consider Dave's accent to be too strong it is fairly heavy
I do see what your saying about it not being an accent, but I do believe that pacing/flow are a part of an accent along with inflections and pronunciation - could be mistaken though
it definitely isn't a very widespread accent but I hear it sometimes from people over on the east coast
[video=youtube;KpBYnL5fAXE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBYnL5fAXE[/video]
[editline]5th April 2013[/editline]
(video partially related but mostly funny)
i was never prepared for how cringeworthy looking for an example of aussie accents would be
jesus christ people trying to put on accents
I was expecting it to have an enormous fuckhuge amount of capacity
I love Dave.
And his voice.
Man it'd be cool if IBM still built stuff like this, I know they do for their mainframes but these hard drives just look so cool.
[QUOTE=Em See;40159610][video=youtube;KpBYnL5fAXE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBYnL5fAXE[/video][/QUOTE]
If you have watched a few of Adam Hills' videos you'd notice he has a very similar accent to the EEVblog guy and both of them are from Sydney. I also live in Sydney (10 minutes away from where Adam Hills used to live) and you'd rarely hear this type of speech. The pacing of his voice all has to do with the fact that he is presenting to the camera and is making everything up on the spot.
Can't take how he speaks. It was unbearable.
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;40163521]Man it'd be cool if IBM still built stuff like this, I know they do for their mainframes but these hard drives just look so cool.[/QUOTE]
IBM made their money from leasing and service contracts. It's not economical anyomre for their R&D labs to manufacture their own drives so they buy commodity drives, rebadge them and put their own firmware on them. That way their under contract customers cannot put their own drives in. They have to buy them through IBM with that $1 million service contract.
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