Given the quality of writing that always seems to be present with the text to speech, my guess is that it is produced by someone who does not speak English and is using a Google Translate translation from their native language and a Text-to-Speech converter.
I mean, there are times when it is quite cool, like when someone who is not an English speaker is sharing things about their life or their travels or culture or something like that and we get to see someone else’s point of view that we otherwise would never have gotten to see. This is really cool, and it’s amazing tech that I’m thankful for.
But then there are the people who are doing dubiously researched “top 10” style lists or presenting authoritative videos on nonfiction topics that they obviously have no actual knowledge of or clickbait misinterpreted videos like this that I honestly feel that my life would have been better off without having seen.
(For the record, I do 100% believe that they did in fact get grainy, security camera footage of a dinosaur running across their yard at 3 AM. I mean, yes, it’s a modern dinosaur otherwise known as a “bird”, but yes.)
That may explain some of them, but this one was different. You wouldn’t use a word like ‘dino’ and mispronounce it if you’re using a language conversion/TTS kind of thing. You’d expect the right pronunciation to be in the TTS directly.
I actually believe in videos like this, because the video itself is so unconvincing when making any sort of specific claims. Hey, a vague, motion-blurred, pixelated, compression-artefacted mess! It could be anything! Yep, that’s a video, alright, showing… something.
my vote for “what is this dinosaur?” is street chicken. although, a chicken wakened from the roost at 3:40am would be squawking it f’n head off and every other chicken in the 'hood would then make a godawful racket.
and yes, feral street chickens are a thing, even on the southern mainland (they are a protected nuisance here in the islands).
opossum, iggy, small cayman or gator… I’ll allow it.
California is lousy with Fence Lizards of which there are several types including the Coast Range type. It’s that type that greets us outside our place a couple of times a week (once even getting trapped in our fireplace). Anyway, we see them quite often. And I can say that when they get a hankering for getting up on their hind legs and running like the dickens, they get up on their hind legs and run like the dickens.
