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Someone should make a horror game using exclusively audio captchas as ambience

lol when i was in middle school, we had chrome books where we took out state testing and there would be a captcha right? i noticed the sound button and lord i started freaking out on the inside it was the most terrifying thing little me has ever heard. i only thought it was funny because someone in the class started laughing and everyone started doing it

Blind guy here, and I'm all too familiar with audio Captchas. The Facebook one is definitely not something I could pass, but all the other ones are perfectly audible to me and I can pick out the numbers distinctly from the background audio. Keep in mind that, when you get an audio option in a Captcha, the audio you get doesn't actually read out a distorted version of the text it displays. (Some older Captcha implementations might've, but nowadays, they almost certainly don't). It's a completely separate puzzle. With the Google one in particular, you are supposed to type out the clearly pronounced numbers and NOT the weird distorted background words. Hopefully that clears things up. Still though... Yahoo... Man that was creepy.

"five" and "nine" sound almost identical in conditions like that, which is why pilots use "niner"

imagine being awake at 3am in the morning and logging onto a website to get something done and it asks you to fill out a CAPTCHA in order to log in. You then start to fill out the CAPTCHA when you accidentally click on the audio button and get scared shitless thinking there's a literal demon haunting you

If I was to guess, I'd say the child voices were chosen because audio-recognizing bots are typically trained on adult voices.

God, this is creepy. And it's near midnight for me.

I remember using an audio Captcha for the first time in the evening out of pure curiosity. Compared to what I had previously been listening to, it was ridiculously loud and consisted of a male text to speech sounding voice that was slowed down as well as backwards speech, backwards music, and eerie inaudible whispering, the last one being very similar to what you might hear in the soundtrack of a horror film. Needless to say, I'm never using an audio Captcha ever again. And no, I never figured out what numbers or letters I was supposed to type in because all of the other sounds overpowered the very thing I was supposed to be listening for. Hopefully these useless Captchas get fixed eventually, but, in the mean time, sound effects artists for horror film soundtracks should get their hands on that sweet non-copyrighted audio and use it to its full advantage.

The numbers are what you're meant to imput since each has their own sound whilst most letters sound like "e" when mixed with other audio defeating the point. I'm blind and have to use this cursed things. Also I think they use child voices, and Amazon sometimes uses Aussie accents because they're less understood by current bots.

that segment where you challenge us to hear just one "letter" is impossible by the definition of the challenge. the segment in question is actually a number, 7. As a blind person myself these audio captchas are quite useful even if they are a bit creepy. They use numerical inputs instead of letters or words, so like a creepy numbers station lol.

This video starts as an internet mystery, and ends as a story of a legendary man trying to save the world one captcha at a time.

Wow! This captcha audio is so good, my grandpa started rolling around on the floor screaming!

6:45 It's because Children's voices sit at a higher frequency which is harder for an AI to hear if a lower frequency that is about impossible for humans to hear playing in the background (Or vice-versa). For example, if you take an old phone and play let's say a 260HZ Frequency (A slightly flat Middle C or C4) And play a 2,600HZ Frequency (A perfect B7) Those frequencies won't blend since they are 35 Semitones apart and may sound a bit staticky or distorted. Therefore an AI won't be able to tell what is being said if you introduce a Third frequency. (I have studied a lot of engineering, programming, and music stuff [which have always been my top subjects])

7:33 the audio captcha does Not have to be the same phrase as the visual captcha. In this case, you are supposed to type in the numbers that you hear

It literally sounds like demonic chanting. I am kinda scared that my room will turn red and a demon will break out of my floor.

as someone who has broken their jaw and had it wired shut, i have no fucking idea how kanye recorded a whole ass album with his jaw wired shut. i couldn’t drink anything more thick than water tf

A.I. has evolved to have emotional reactions such as fear thus captcha evolved to scare away the bots with creepy demonic sounds.

fun fact- the google captcha noice is actually also used for the siren head creepypasta as it is heard a few times in some videos and it is commonly used in creepypasta videos on siren head!

OH GOD. I remember when I was about 10 years old on my tablet alone in the middle of my room at night and clicked on the captcha sound. I was so terrified I thought there was something wrong with my tablet or a hacker was in it. I’m still scared of it

The Facebook one is Mark's real voice.

Actually i think the yahoo makes sense. The reverse talking is probably to trick any bots into listening to the wrong thing.

I discovered the captcha audio way back when I was a wee lad in elementary school in my computer class. It haunts me once in a while

2:02 the audio captcha doesnt read the text from the image, it's a completely separate solution

Bro that sounds like Tim (my sleep paralysis demon)! I never knew he was *that* famous!

I can't help but to love it when technology is spooky. So cool.

imagine being blind, witch is already easier to get scared, and then u stumble across one of these audio captches, it must terrifying asf 💀

Most captcha noises sound like ai generated E.T dying noises

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I freaked out when I was younger, I genuinely thought I got a virus.

2:03 not true, the audio captcha is different from the visual one, its just numbers. you can figure this out pretty quickly by just doing a bit of searching but yeah they do sound creepy, I think its hard to create an audio that disallows bots from understanding the numbers being spoken without sounding creepy. the mixture of random noises plus numbers automatically is unnerving anyway. I do think though that if blind users cant pass the captchas then google should listen to their input and make adjustments.

I never even thought the audio captcha would sound so creepy. I can understand needing to make it distorted enough for AI to get confused but I never imagined just how creepy it would sound in order for them to work.

5:07 Amazon is trying to open the Chamber of Secrets

It's pretty great that you made a video highlighting how blind people have problems navigating captchas because they are visually based but it would be even better if you narrated the visual elements of your video enough that blind people could watch it and know what is happening on the screen

The reason that there are so many different sounds interrupting in the Background of every Captcha Audio, is because otherwise bots would be able to listen to it and convert it to text, Captchas are there so Bots can't get through.

i remember you talking about this on stream, so ive been waiting for this

A few days ago I ran into one of these while trying to download something, the image wasn't loading so my first reaction was to click on the audio button. The creepy audio started, I let it play for like 15 seconds, I couldn't make out anything of it and the damn thing just wouldn't stop. After that I just panicked and closed the page down lol

The audio captcha doesn't actually match the words, it's a string of numbers as an alternative.

5:27 that’s the laugh of a baby but ok

the yahoo one scares me the most, not only because its a generally unsettling audio but mainly because of what re-reversing the speech behind the numbers could produce

I remember this happening to me in 5th grade and so my teacher was used the audio thing to know what it is. And the whole class heard at full volume

I remember having to verify an email I made, and I clicked the audio for one of these for captcha. I'm someone who gets scared by that kind of stuff easily and I was home alone, so you could only imagine the terror I felt when I clicked it 😭

the primary function of captchas is ai learning for their own ai, it just happens to also be usable as a security feature. It will have some that it knows the answer to, and it also has some that the machine can't verify, but decides the answer based on the most commonly entered answer. It gives them at random. Also, the audio captcha doesn’t have anything to do with the visual one, they're two separate puzzles

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Fun Fact: This sound is actually used in Siren Head horror games. And it was a very famous because it was used in horror short films with Siren Head in it.

5:54 *OOONNNEEEE* *(ONE intro plays)*

3:12 "Ahh... Salmon." give me ur pocket change

The quality of your videos keeps getting better. Wow.

Google's been using the new reCaptcha (I'm not a robot) since they added it years ago, but that one straight up doesn't let you use the audio option, like 🤨

I love how there is a software to bypass every capcha yet they do this audio trick

Just subscribed. Loving it mate, great chanel - I'm a veteran watcher of this chanel genre and you're pretty damn good man, keep it up

I listened to this as a child, I was shaking, I thought my computer was sending me subliminal messages. 💀💀

Me: Hmm, what does this word say? *clicks audio button* Captcha: Extreme devil noises.

1:59 I actually heard this in a gmod animation and now I wonder who’d use this as an audible answer to a captcha?

It's funny to me that most of them don't tell you how to do the audio one, they just assume that you know how to use it

Once, I accidentally did this. I got scared to death. I got goosebumps everywhere that can be there. It's spooky.

I was surprised that you didn't think Facebook was pretty tame, I was scared shitless

You need more subs all your videos are amazing, also high quality

Soothing captcha audios to fall asleep to.

I remember when I accidentally clicked on it and a female voice started loudly saying unintelligible stuff in a robotic voice like in an empty hallway. I nervously searched around the browser and processes for where it could come from... friend was there too and equally disturbed. xD

6:09 Understandable, since Zuck is an alien.

I have CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder) and this stuff is so frustrating because it just sounds like garbled noise to me

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5:26 those arent cries of babies, ive had to spend months caring for my sister (who just turned 1!) and from my experience with babies, i can say thats more of a happy sound

I'm watching this at midnight because I felt lonely and now I dont feel too alone anymore!

The ReCAPTCHA Audio literally sounds (To me) like something the Icon Of Sin from the DOOM franchise would say ngl

NiceJob! It makes me wonder what the future of Captcha is.

When I was a kid those sound captcha scared the shit out of me

5:17 I had to go back when you said Amazon used a sound clip of a crying baby, because I was 99% sure that I had just heard a laughing one and yup 😂

At 3:11 I could make out the word "ransom"

Finally someone made a video on this.

I once clicked Google's audio icon. It was even more confusing than this in Spanish. I could hear people talking half normally and half backwards while an Andalusian woman repeatedly said something which sounded like the English word 'say'. Then, the woman said 'Una vez más' (one more time), and the sound repeated.

I’ve always thought it’s crazy but how capchas are put on websites for humans to “prove they’re not a bot”-- TO a bot!!! A bot that determines if the human passed or not. ESSENTIALLY meaning, OBVIOUSLY another bot can still pass it too.

6:40 well at least exorcism sounds better than facebook...i cannot even hear what they are saying

3:36 THE Adam Ragusea? The "I season my cutting board not my steak" guy?

I tried the audio thing on google once but this didn't happen to me, maybe because it was a long time ago, But I doubt that's the issue. This really got me wondering why they do this.

For google i heard "DONT HATE ME IM NEW TO THIS" at the end of the captcha lol

Can relate, the captcha voice is horrifying

sorry about your lip!! hope it heals up quickly.

KZfaq got "8" for Amazon, none for Facebook, and thought Yahoo and Google was music.

this is what happens when an AI is told to generate audio files

Thank god I never had to deal with sound Captcha.

HEY! THAT LANGUAGE FROM HELL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SECRET GODDAMNIT MOXXIE

The children talking backwards genuinely sent a chill up my spine

I listened to it once, thought my computer was broken. Tried it again and I was terrified.

I exclusively use audio captcha's they're extemely easy for me (unlike the image ones which fricking suck) Also no they are randomized and not related to the word/image captchas they're just numbers for the most part (Also all of the audio captchas you showcaused are pretty audable for me, I can hear the numbers in all of them)

I remember trying to listen to it while resetting my xbox password because I couldn’t even -read- the text. The voice spoke too fast, and there was no option to slow it down. I didn’t play on my xbox account that day.

Bro your captcha audio was so scary I almost went into cardiac arrest but I'm fine now so no need to worry

3:08 i heard a 7 in there somewhere lol

one time I was signing up to twitch on my granda’s computer (this was back when twitch would open on ie 8 or chrome 30 or whatever I was using) and I played the audio and had a shart attack and didn’t sign up again until a couple years ago

I clicked the audio one time when I was a kid (probably making a Neopets account) and it made me cry

3:32 it made me so happy to see that THE Adam Ragusea worte this article. It was before he was a full time cooking youtuber

Maybe I am a robot…

I dunno man, Facebook seems like the worst cuz it's both creepy AND completely incoherent, even when listening for numbers. All the other ones at least have SOME I can understand... but not that one!

glad someone talked about this

im 8 months late but i understood "nyaaaan bem" from the capcha you showed,hand over that change

3:32 Adam Ragusea made that article!? That's the last person I'd expect to see here lol

On school chromebooks some of my class mates would type the wrong email a bunch of times to get captcha to come up and they clicked the sound button and called it goolosh

See and type Captcha: Altered letters Hear and type Captcha: Evil sounds

Good videos man!