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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He sounds like that for the whole twitter interview that he just did. When his campaign was asked about it a bit ago, I think they made the one of the worst responses possible:

In an emailed response to an inquiry about the lisp from a Huffington Post reporter, the Trump campaign said, “Must be your s****y hearing. Get your ears checked.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-elon-musk-interview-x-stream-lisp-b2595384.html

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wow. "Don't believe your own ears." How fascist of them.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Indeed. That was on an event broadcast live and recorded by many many people. Checking it takes like 3 seconds to hear the lisp

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah, do NOT believe your own ears, use Musks new brain chip instead. So much better! /S

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's crazy! My most generous interpretation was that there was some sort of audio compession that was cutting off the S's. But to blame the listener is a classic move that shouldn't surprise me.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

However musk doesn't have the same sound which makes some bizarre audio compression artifacts less likely

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I reckon you're right, unless there was some additional audio equipement or network processing on Trump's side. But I think you're right that, at the very least, it wasn't something being done by the Twitter back-end.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Photos of him doing the interview show him just using a phone which wouldn't support the idea of their being extra audio equipment