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Show HN: A quiz app using the Web Speech API
- tomasien 14y agoWow this works really well! Love it. By the way, this really demonstrates why I don't have much confidence in speech based applications. I started playing this in my living room, and my sister immediately was like "why are you doing that?" It's weird to just start talking at a computer. Felt weird, looked weird, was weird. That's why walkie-talkie functionality, which was in a lot of phones for a while, lost out to text messaging. (not a criticism of this game, which I like a lot)
- tomasien 14y agoExceptions: while driving
- ollysb 14y agoIt was way off for me, after a minute of attempts I couldn't get it to understand árbol (spanish vocab)
- ollysb 14y agoNot sure if it's got some kind of learning algorithm, it mistook "school" for "scrubs" repeatedly for a whole minute but after that started to understand very consistently.
- michaelmior 14y agoNote that if you're doing the Spanish vocab test, you should be trying to say the equivalent in the language you selected, not the Spanish word.
- jechen 14y agoTried the multiplication quiz: recognition is a bit slow and inaccurate, which results in repeated attempts per problem (and gets in the way of the main objective: answering as many as quickly in a minute). It's an otherwise cool showcase of the speech recognition feature though. :)
- btbuildem 14y agoHope you're keeping track of how often people curse at it. You know, for science. When I worked on a project related to voice recognition and phone menu systems, they ended up making swear words redirect to the operator.
- ivan_ah 14y agoThis is probably the coolest thing I have seen this week! Really low intensity interactions with the computer. Who needs a keyboard? I have been using http://talktyper.com http://talktyper.com lately and I am amazed with the accuracy. I am not throwing out my keyboard out of the window yet, but soon.... soon. Thx for releasing the source!