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Twilio Contest Entry - PhoneSimon

18 points by jazzychad 17y ago

dmor 17y ago
Fun use of Twilio! I'm trying to keep up with fastest963 on the leaderboard but this is tough
- jazzychad 17y ago
  Yes, it really turned out to be more challenging than I anticipated. I'll be surprised if anyone can score 5 or more on the insane level. It was really fun learning about DTMF tones, though.
  - catch23 17y ago
    seems like this thing would be pretty easy to automate (aka cheating). Fire up an asterisk box and have it record, decipher, and play back the tones!
    - jazzychad 17y ago
      Try it! I'd love to see that work. I thought about doing it myself for unit testing.
    - marcus 17y ago
      That seems like an awfully complicated way of doing it, why not use a digital voice recorder (your pc/cellphone) to record each set of beeps and play it back.
      - furyg3 17y ago
        Tried it, didn't work. I do have a crappy phone (though the digital recorder is quite good).
    - dmor 17y ago
      I think you could actually build a Twilio app to cheat... if only there were more hours in the day, I'd try it!
domodomo 17y ago
Boy, it's really hard when you are using a digital phone system where all the beeps you hear back are identical =\
mcav 17y ago
That's awesome fun. Tip: Try to hear the intervals -- the lower pitch distinguishes between rows, while the higher pitch distinguishes between columns. If you can learn to differentiate between the two pitches, it's easier to map it to the different numbers.
- jazzychad 17y ago
  Yep, that's my strategy. The hardest part is getting the first number. After that distinguishing changes in intervals makes it easier. Congrats on getting two scores of 8 on Insane. Sure you're not cheating? :)
  - mcav 17y ago
    No, not cheating. I play [jazz] piano, so I'm used to hearing intervals and stuff (Useful when comping for solos). So I visualize it like this: Lower tone: Eb, F, or G Upper tone: C, D, or E So as the note's played, I tried to visualize what keys I'd have to hit on the piano to make the same noise. Also, i put the phone on speakerphone so that I can look at the digits while they play back. The middle combinations are the toughest, because if you don't have a good bearing on where the previous pitch is, it's easy to get disoriented.
jeffiel 17y ago
I didn't do well. I was trying to speak DTMF back to it :(

18 points by jazzychad 17y ago

dmor 17y ago

Fun use of Twilio! I'm trying to keep up with fastest963 on the leaderboard but this is tough

jazzychad 17y ago
Yes, it really turned out to be more challenging than I anticipated. I'll be surprised if anyone can score 5 or more on the insane level. It was really fun learning about DTMF tones, though.
- catch23 17y ago
  seems like this thing would be pretty easy to automate (aka cheating). Fire up an asterisk box and have it record, decipher, and play back the tones!
  - jazzychad 17y ago
    Try it! I'd love to see that work. I thought about doing it myself for unit testing.
  - marcus 17y ago
    That seems like an awfully complicated way of doing it, why not use a digital voice recorder (your pc/cellphone) to record each set of beeps and play it back.
    - furyg3 17y ago
      Tried it, didn't work. I do have a crappy phone (though the digital recorder is quite good).
  - dmor 17y ago
    I think you could actually build a Twilio app to cheat... if only there were more hours in the day, I'd try it!

domodomo 17y ago

Boy, it's really hard when you are using a digital phone system where all the beeps you hear back are identical =\

mcav 17y ago

That's awesome fun. Tip: Try to hear the intervals -- the lower pitch distinguishes between rows, while the higher pitch distinguishes between columns. If you can learn to differentiate between the two pitches, it's easier to map it to the different numbers.

jazzychad 17y ago
Yep, that's my strategy. The hardest part is getting the first number. After that distinguishing changes in intervals makes it easier. Congrats on getting two scores of 8 on Insane. Sure you're not cheating? :)
- mcav 17y ago
  No, not cheating. I play [jazz] piano, so I'm used to hearing intervals and stuff (Useful when comping for solos). So I visualize it like this: Lower tone: Eb, F, or G Upper tone: C, D, or E So as the note's played, I tried to visualize what keys I'd have to hit on the piano to make the same noise. Also, i put the phone on speakerphone so that I can look at the digits while they play back. The middle combinations are the toughest, because if you don't have a good bearing on where the previous pitch is, it's easy to get disoriented.

jeffiel 17y ago

I didn't do well. I was trying to speak DTMF back to it :(