Comment by nemacol | Hacker News Reader

Comment by nemacol | Hacker News Reader

This is only tangentially related but... Anyone else cringe / feel and overwhelming desire to turn off any video like the first one in this article (#AndroidDevSummit: tune in October 27-28!) where someone speaks in that excessively excited and optimistic voice? It is as cliché and gag inducing to me as the infomercial voiceover guy explaining how something simple thing is a disaster and how they have now solved it.

I can't turn that shit off fast enough.

Also, I really like Keri Byron from Myth busters, etc. This is not a complaint about a personality or whatever. Just this delivery that seems to be everywhere in tech sales pitches and time shares.

Agree and feel the same way with presentations like this. Also, I dislike how so many tech presentations have such a childish tone or silliness to them all the time, instead of just presenting information to adults as adults in a normal way. It's very distracting in my opinion.

For years and years I watched Kari Byron dubbed in my native language. And the dubbers are mostly really good over there, great actors. Today I got to hear her real voice for the first time, and it was... weird. I feel some kind of immersion has been broken. There are quite a few shows I can't watch in English due to the real actors (or English dubbers) being worse than the dubbers of my countries. I'll add Kari to the list.

Other than that, she's great! I'm a huge fan.

Edit: it's Kari.

I also find that style annoying, to the point that I wonder why it's even in use. I always thought it was an American thing, given it's barely present in my country, and when it's used it sounds ridiculous to most people.

I agree. I also like Kari so it's not her. I dig tech stuff, I just don't need a cheerleader.

I didn’t think it was at all excessively excited and optimistic. Just presented with a smile like any host I expect to do. I thought it was fine. Maybe it’s cultural.

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