Lot of people get caught out by this system, I really don’t understand why there can’t be some cash booths as well as the ANPR system. Also there is no contactless either.
Seems to me like catching people out is the point.
Weird. If the bloke had been a lecturer then he must have been intelligible at some time. I wonder if age or illness has seriously fucked with his voice?
Might have got somewhere if he’d said ” alreet hinny” at the start of the conversation, manners matter you see.
Asking her wife or kids to spell out the registration number wasn’t feasible? Also, if the system correctly repeats the number given, how could it have been using an incorrect number to read out what it had received and then stored as the number to pay the fee for?
Sounds more like a mistake happened due an old man’s stubbornness rather than a system failing.
I wouldn’t have thought a retired university lecturer from Hull would have a particularly strong accent. But maybe the system is calibrated to the Geordie accent? 🤔
I went to my friends house and his Alexa didn’t understand my Manc accent I had to speak in a Belfast Irish accent to get it to recognise my accent.
I used to work with a lady who would say ‘Foower’ instead of four. I would hear her repeating it again and again. There are ‘accents’ and then there is just saying the wrong letters or numbers. I have rare customers who say weird things like ‘aught.’ Who knows what he really said. I mean it is already a Geordie Tunnel, if it can understand the locals then what does he sound like?
Lloyds bank phone bot. Doesnt understand shit, when I say anything.(female voice)
When my BF repeats exact same. No problem.
4 numbers?? How can that be so hard, when google voice to text can type for me perfectly?!
Great scam this tunnel was supposed to be free after it regained its construction cost now it’s a privatised company which pushes its prices up every year
Every automated system should have at least one readily available human backup. I know they prefer machines because they don’t want to pay people, but it’s the cost of business when tech is not infallible yet (and perhaps never will be)
The automated system also sucks, there is a reason why the successful appeal percentage is similar to the DWP’s. Even if you pay online, it’s not that uncommon to still get a fine through the post which you then have to appeal.
Is this an old article? I thought the Tyne tunnel went to virtual tolls? Reads your number plate, you pay online when you get home. I’ve been through recently and no tolls there at all?
Tyne Tunnel saves man’s holiday by stopping him from making the mistake of going to Newcastle
Me trying to get Alexa to understand my mild scouse accent
This bloke’s just a useless twat. I’ve used the tunnel twice this week and it took 30 seconds each time on my phone. He’s just being fucking awkward for the sake of it.
Ya canny whack a mastahcard.
Michael, is that you?!
I thought you went missing after jumping off Cromer Pier…?
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Lot of people get caught out by this system, I really don’t understand why there can’t be some cash booths as well as the ANPR system. Also there is no contactless either.
Seems to me like catching people out is the point.
Weird. If the bloke had been a lecturer then he must have been intelligible at some time. I wonder if age or illness has seriously fucked with his voice?
Might have got somewhere if he’d said ” alreet hinny” at the start of the conversation, manners matter you see.
Asking her wife or kids to spell out the registration number wasn’t feasible? Also, if the system correctly repeats the number given, how could it have been using an incorrect number to read out what it had received and then stored as the number to pay the fee for?
Sounds more like a mistake happened due an old man’s stubbornness rather than a system failing.
I wouldn’t have thought a retired university lecturer from Hull would have a particularly strong accent. But maybe the system is calibrated to the Geordie accent? 🤔
I went to my friends house and his Alexa didn’t understand my Manc accent I had to speak in a Belfast Irish accent to get it to recognise my accent.
*[Voice recognition technology](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSmOjNzGEPQ)*.
Thats an issue with voice recognition.
It doesn’t understand accents.
Inception.
No.
In*cep*tion.
No.
In*cep*tion.
No.
I used to work with a lady who would say ‘Foower’ instead of four. I would hear her repeating it again and again. There are ‘accents’ and then there is just saying the wrong letters or numbers. I have rare customers who say weird things like ‘aught.’ Who knows what he really said. I mean it is already a Geordie Tunnel, if it can understand the locals then what does he sound like?
Lloyds bank phone bot. Doesnt understand shit, when I say anything.(female voice)
When my BF repeats exact same. No problem.
4 numbers?? How can that be so hard, when google voice to text can type for me perfectly?!
[Fonejacker predicted this nearly 15 years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_9m81Z-L4E)
Great scam this tunnel was supposed to be free after it regained its construction cost now it’s a privatised company which pushes its prices up every year
Every automated system should have at least one readily available human backup. I know they prefer machines because they don’t want to pay people, but it’s the cost of business when tech is not infallible yet (and perhaps never will be)
The automated system also sucks, there is a reason why the successful appeal percentage is similar to the DWP’s. Even if you pay online, it’s not that uncommon to still get a fine through the post which you then have to appeal.
Is this an old article? I thought the Tyne tunnel went to virtual tolls? Reads your number plate, you pay online when you get home. I’ve been through recently and no tolls there at all?
Tyne Tunnel saves man’s holiday by stopping him from making the mistake of going to Newcastle
Me trying to get Alexa to understand my mild scouse accent
This bloke’s just a useless twat. I’ve used the tunnel twice this week and it took 30 seconds each time on my phone. He’s just being fucking awkward for the sake of it.
Ya canny whack a mastahcard.
Michael, is that you?!
I thought you went missing after jumping off Cromer Pier…?
Keep it south of the border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAu-DDlINs
What an idiot. If he truly was unable to get it to work he could have asked anyone to help him by reading his numberplate into the phone.