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A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
- bentograd 3mo agoThis looks very cool, but I find it very hard to read the text against the moving background. The lights in the "windows" of the voxel building do not provide good contrast.
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- johngossman 3mo agoFun. I studied Japanese for two years, let it slide and now every Kanji is like "Hmmm, I've seen that before but..." I can still read kana though, which is nice to know.
- iqihs 3mo agoFurigana is a lifesaver
- rimworld 3mo agolove the tunes
- LastMuel 3mo agoThis site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted. I’m on the latest security release of iOS. Something off about that.
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- worrycue 3mo agoWorks fine for me on a 17e.
- LastMuel 3mo agoI’m on an 11 Pro. The site works fine. The issue is the audio. It somehow continues playing after the page is closed and after the application I’m using is closed. It took a phone reboot to stop playing. I’m not claiming that there’s malicious activity on the part of the site. I just wonder if there is something anomalous about how it plays audio.
- socalgal2 3mo agoIt's a bug in WebKit.
- echelon 3mo agoDoes this scale beyond N5/N4? This could be a really useful tool.
- Tor3 3mo agoI don't know why, but that was an extreme load on my computer/browser. The picture changed every ten-fifteen seconds, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it wasn't something I wanted to watch. The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.
- weakfish 3mo agoIf you right click on the page, you can 'open image in new tab' and get an image of the current screen. I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild.
- Rohansi 3mo ago> I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild. What's wild about that? That's exactly what it's doing and what most uses of canvas/WebGL do.
- wyrdcurt 3mo agoIt's wild if it's running at 400 fps because nobody has a screen that refreshes at 400Hz. Every frame rendered past the screen refresh rate is wasted compute. Easily solved by limiting the frame rate.
- hmry 3mo agoIt's not running at 400 fps, the UI has the current global listener count next to a button that says "fps". The fps is only shown once you click that button. Weird design, I know.
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- elabajaba 3mo ago360hz screens have been available for about 6 years now and you can get one for $200-300 now. ~500hz monitors have been widely available for ~3 years now, and in the last year we've had companies launching monitors with 720hz and soon 1000hz refresh rates (1000hz is needed to avoid persistence blur due to sample and hold display tech https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-law-amazing-journey-to-future-1000hz-displays-with-blurfree-sample-and-hold/ https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-law-amazing-journey-to-...). Annoyingly, on Firefox this is locked to 60fps on my 120hz display.
- mrbluecoat 3mo agoWhat a cool idea! Need something similar for Korean - perhaps the EverLine light rail line in Yongin.
- Zababa 3mo agoThis looks good and I like the idea but I don't get what the "practice" is here?
- philote 3mo agoYeah I loaded it up and had no idea what to do.
- nsfmc 3mo agoyou listen to the audio and try to determine if you can either read or understand the audio. it's repeated twice, once formally and once casually, so good for listening practice, but also good for adding new words/phrases into your vocabulary since some of them might be familiar but maybe reconfigured in a way that you don't normally see in your practice. this is probably only useful if you've started learning a very small amount of grammar, know hiragana well enough to make furigana useful, and have started memorizing enough kanji/vocab to make 'overheard train chatter' useful. probably, generously, something maybe 3-6 months into your japanese language journey, so not good for bootstrapping.
- Zababa 3mo agoThat makes sense. It seems a bit too slow to be really useful, as in, I feel like you'd want either to replay the audio as much as you want, or you can kind of listen passively/actively to something simple and slow.
- marginalia_nu 3mo agoVoxel Tokyo has very pleasant vibes.
- TacticalCoder 3mo agoTokyo has very pleasant vibes. It's an amazing city. My brother lives there since 30 years and I've been many times (it's so far that when I go, I go for 3 months). My daughter loves it and, motivated by having japanese family, she's currently trying to learn japanese. I think she'll love that site (I'll show it to her as soon as she comes back home).
- Lawyer24 3mo agoI am going to reach out to you via email. I like this project and I am building something similar. Maybe we can collaborate or keep in contact.
- nexus2045 3mo agolovely
- Keyframe 3mo agoLooks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?
- mister_mort 3mo agoI think it's just one of the standard JP voice synthesisers available. I know I've heard almost exactly the same one on other Youtube videos using text-to-speech for Japanese.
- AdmiralAsshat 3mo agoJapan likes their cutesy little-girl voices.
- Keyframe 3mo agoHow infantile then
- altairprime 3mo agoComparing our culture to others, women in the U.S. are raised to do much the same. Ask anyone woman constantly misgendered for not having a high-pitched woman’s speaking tone (e.g. pacific islanders) and they’ll confirm. Best not throw stones from glass houses.
- Keyframe 3mo agoI don't know, I don't live or am from US.
- altairprime 3mo agoWell, rephrased then in more literal speak: being less dismissively-judgmental and more observational will go a long way in this community.
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- mercanlIl 3mo agoI get the same feeling. There’s a lack of polish and intentionality to it. It’s a cool idea and a nice demo, and there’s certainly a lot of buttons and features. But it’s been laggy on my device, it’s visually distracting, and the UX doesn’t seem particularly well-suited for practicing Japanese.
- netsharc 3mo agoThe evening mode has vibes of Ghost in the Shell's "chase UI", glimpses of which is in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amKt8ttja1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amKt8ttja1E
- badabidi 3mo agoEpic!
- kingkool68 3mo agoThis reminds me of Sim Copter from when I was a kid
- fitsumbelay 3mo agovery cool and runs pretty nicely on my 2019 mac mini
- socalgal2 3mo agoThe voice does not sound like a native speaker. I don't mean it sounds like a non-human character, I mean something is subtly off. Timing or something. Is that intentional? Maybe pick a different TTS solution?
- ranza 3mo agoi was expecting this lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUTD9r3G8W0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUTD9r3G8W0 :D
- choutianxius 3mo ago> The voice does not sound like a native speaker. It would be more attractive to me if it's vocaloid
- swang 3mo agoany volume control? voice is a bit loud and i couldn't find anything to turn it down.
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- zelphirkalt 3mo agoMeanwhile I am sitting in an InterCity"Express" train in Germany, which already started 14 minutes late, and somehow managed to drive so slowly, that at every stop another ~2 minutes were lost. Now just standing around at a stop, because of some medical emergency at the next station, and announced a delay of fucking 90 minutes. How long can it take to remove whoever causes the medical emergency from the tracks or wherever they are and continue driving? It is all so nuts here, all so idiotic. The last 10 times or so, that I have been traveling, every fucking time they have stupid issues. And they don't even manage to have functioning displays inside the trains. Every now and then the displays are turned off. Why am I not allowed to see the up-to-date status?
- darkwater 3mo agoMedical emergency might well be somebody committing suicide (or trying to).
- zelphirkalt 3mo agoYep, but then what takes 1h? They must have had that multiple times already. Either get them off the tracks in whatever state they are in, or get them out of the train. I don't find it to be a good reason to punish the collective amount of all train passengers in any train in the vicinity by making everyone an hour late. It seems very unprofessional.
- smilespray 3mo agoOne day you might be that person who requires medical assistance. Think about that for a bit, considering what you just said.
- zelphirkalt 3mo agoMedical assistance can be received outside of the train, or once medical professionals are on board, while the train moves to the next station at the very least, if it isn't there already.
- b112 3mo agoI watched for a couple of minutes, and while it kept saying Japanese phrases, it just showed me floating by a large city landscape. Certainly nothing like being in a train. Do you just need to wait a while to be in the train? Or for it to start?
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- rambojohnson 3mo agothe experience for attempting to record my voice during practices is atrocious. the background music continues to play, and the obnoxious AI voice interrupted me at least twice, then it switched to "transcribing..." wth? cute concept, please fix that flow..
- astrange 3mo agoI opened it and the TTS mispronounced the first sentence on screen. (ie it ignored the furigana and misread the first word)
- kevin_thibedeau 3mo agoThe trains need to be double-tracked rather than passing through each other.
- chrisguilbeau 3mo agoI spent three months with my family in Japan (Feb-Apr). We were in Osaka and used trains exclusively, just working remotely, homeschooling, living life with a few day/weekend trips. This captures for me the simple, clean, engineered beauty of being in a Japanese city. I just sat an watched for a while feeling like I was back there. Having the easy to learn characters above the traditional ones is also super nice. Amazing. Being able to hover over the characters and see the phonetics would be a nice bonus for us beginners.
- Daz912 3mo ago[dead]