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Can you play any IF through phone? Siri/Alexa/Google? It would be awesome to be able to play while driving / walking / whatever, and could attract more people t

Can you play any IF through phone? Siri/Alexa/Google? It would be awesome to be able to play while driving / walking / whatever, and could attract more people to voice interfaces... IF seems very well suited to voice.

anentropic 8y ago
There is https://textfiction.onyxbits.de/ https://textfiction.onyxbits.de/ for playing Z-machine IF on Android not voice controlled though
ddingus 8y ago
Someone needs to use sound and voice. You enter a dank, dimly lit room, water trickling off to the side, reflecting the fire from your torch. You become aware of a disturbing, low grinding sound, low growl... off to the north, and a cool breeze following you in the exit to the east. Two things: Displaying text, with a soundscape would be amazing and, I'll bet, immersive. The second order might be a mix of spoken word and soundscape that has directionality. You hear most of it, details are spoken, say on move. North. Quickly spoken room details: exits to north, east, water trickle. Soundscape is looping. On next command, look, turn, move, repeat. Voice and or text for user input. I want to pop in earbuds and either speak or type, and let my minds eye fill in the rest. No time right now, so I just put it here. Go!
- harperlee 8y ago
  Exactly this!
- pdfernhout 8y ago
  Twenty years ago, I wrote StoryHarp in 1998 in Delphi to do this, using Microsoft Agent for speech and sound output and limited speech input (from a small set of choices appropriate to the context). I recently ported StoryHarp to JavaScript/TypeScript (using Mithril and Tachyons) to run in the browser -- but without speech input as yet. Demo: https://storyharp.com/ https://storyharp.com/ Source: https://github.com/pdfernhout/storyharp-js https://github.com/pdfernhout/storyharp-js
Eli_P 8y ago
There's a cross-platform (win mac lin) app called Lectrote[1], by Andrew Plotkin, built on Electron. For Android I use Fabularium, TextFiction (both can do speech) and IFMapper tool. Can't say anything about iPhone. Speech output is supported in clients Frotz[2], Git[3]. Talking back should be possible with OS methods or Sphinx or whatever. I think speech input for IF case is more about 3rd party tool for controlling terminal with voice. I also thought about one-handed chord keyboards, so you can kick back or walk and listen while typing with one hand. Unfortunately, there're no practical solutions and prices for keyboards like "twiddler" are insane. [1] https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases [2] https://www.davidkinder.co.uk/frotz.html https://www.davidkinder.co.uk/frotz.html [3] https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXgit.html https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXi...

anentropic 8y ago

There is https://textfiction.onyxbits.de/ https://textfiction.onyxbits.de/ for playing Z-machine IF on Android not voice controlled though

ddingus 8y ago

Someone needs to use sound and voice. You enter a dank, dimly lit room, water trickling off to the side, reflecting the fire from your torch. You become aware of a disturbing, low grinding sound, low growl... off to the north, and a cool breeze following you in the exit to the east. Two things: Displaying text, with a soundscape would be amazing and, I'll bet, immersive. The second order might be a mix of spoken word and soundscape that has directionality. You hear most of it, details are spoken, say on move. North. Quickly spoken room details: exits to north, east, water trickle. Soundscape is looping. On next command, look, turn, move, repeat. Voice and or text for user input. I want to pop in earbuds and either speak or type, and let my minds eye fill in the rest. No time right now, so I just put it here. Go!

harperlee 8y ago
Exactly this!
pdfernhout 8y ago
Twenty years ago, I wrote StoryHarp in 1998 in Delphi to do this, using Microsoft Agent for speech and sound output and limited speech input (from a small set of choices appropriate to the context). I recently ported StoryHarp to JavaScript/TypeScript (using Mithril and Tachyons) to run in the browser -- but without speech input as yet. Demo: https://storyharp.com/ https://storyharp.com/ Source: https://github.com/pdfernhout/storyharp-js https://github.com/pdfernhout/storyharp-js

Eli_P 8y ago

There's a cross-platform (win mac lin) app called Lectrote[1], by Andrew Plotkin, built on Electron. For Android I use Fabularium, TextFiction (both can do speech) and IFMapper tool. Can't say anything about iPhone. Speech output is supported in clients Frotz[2], Git[3]. Talking back should be possible with OS methods or Sphinx or whatever. I think speech input for IF case is more about 3rd party tool for controlling terminal with voice. I also thought about one-handed chord keyboards, so you can kick back or walk and listen while typing with one hand. Unfortunately, there're no practical solutions and prices for keyboards like "twiddler" are insane. [1] https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases [2] https://www.davidkinder.co.uk/frotz.html https://www.davidkinder.co.uk/frotz.html [3] https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXgit.html https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXi...