Yeah, I think to do this right you need to block all visuals. I was able to guess nearly all of mine correctly just from visual clues.
Part of the reason I did so, however, was because the lyrics were often drowned out by the music. Hard to guess when you can barely hear what’s being sung.
Yeah, one opening screen included "#tamilsoundservice". :) (Tamil is one of the languages) I suppose I could try to ignore the video, but it was fun trying to use it for clues. "Oh they look like Bollywood dancers so I'll guess Hindi." This backfired on me when I tried guessing one based on the subtitles I saw, which I assumed were for karaoke, but the answer was completely wrong. I guess they were for translation, not karaoke.
- Some videos are blocked on copyright claims, would be nice if they would auto-reload
- sometimes my mouse would reveal the title of the video (alt text)
I definitely was able to use some external clues from the videos even though they try to blur the hints. I would not necessarily guess Armenian from Turkish immediately but I am sure able to differentiate between Latin derived Turkish script on the screen and Armenian script.
I'd say, both. I wish the licenses were fluid across apps/platforms.
Say, I have a right to listen to Madonna from my Youtube Music subscription? A game, with the given permission to access my "music licenses" should be able to use that.
There's a report video button on top of the video for these. Far too many incorrect videos ruins the game a bit: You're on a streak and no video means you can lose 3 lives. I've reported about 50 videos so far.
Agreed on the calls for letting the player hide album art and start in the middle of the track. Also had a bug where a Spanish song was classified as Latin.
Still, I can guess the languages of 2/3 of the songs without hearing a word, by various letters on the screen (Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Hindi, Arabian, often Turkish, Kazakh, Chechen by their special letters). Faces and style often help more than the sound, too. (My highest score in solo mode without a timer is 104 so far).
Death metal tracks, highly distorted hip-hop tracks, ethereal choral track are usually hardest to determine.
Besides, it's a nice intro into various kinds of music all over the world, and across many decades. Worth playing just for that.
If you’re on an iPhone you can power off then on to get to the Lock Screen. iOS will tell you the name and artist of the video that’s playing.
I don’t know if there’s a way for the author to disable that. But I think it’s a valid part of the metagame to use that information when guessing. Kinda like how the top geoguessr players use camera artifacts to deduce where the photo was taken.
Tried it. The second video was not available in my country (Portugal), and there is no option to report this, only "video is removed" (it's not, just region-blocked)
Wow, this is super fun, and a great sampler of a wide variety of music!
I was curious about the composition of music, therefore a friend and I created/curated frequency-domain visualizations of a variety of music in different languages and interesting sounds using the Welch power spectral density estimation algorithm and Fast Fourier Transform. The visualizations are fun to look at and with some practice you can distinguish the different instruments and vocal tracks in each song.
As well as the a cappella Starships (Nicki Minaj cover) by Mike Tompkins which has a mind-blowing breakdown of how he built up the composition from different vocals at the end:
https://youtu.be/vDqHpWY1UD4?t=209
Definitely feel like I'm playing a bit more GeoGuessr than Langoguessr. First one was a music video where I could get a good guess on the location by the style of license plates and background scenery. Second was a still frame shot of an album cover featuring the Armenian flag. Third one had no defining features and suddenly I wasn't so good at the game!
Hey we just included an audio only mode, you might wanna try that too! It is our first pass of the system as described in our first comment here, we would be glad if you can share your experience!
I wish it weren't song-based, though it's an understandable implementation.
As others have noted, there are often many cues 'n' clues even before a single word is uttered. But also, I have trouble enough picking out words in my native tongue, let alone when transmogrified by musical prosody and accompaniment.
Today I learned that Polish sounds nothing like what I thought it sounded like :)
We definitely are! Reports are too important for us, we are actively evaluating reports and our first update has improved our system too much thanks to reports we got from community. We are glad that we have such a cooperative community.
The indian subcontinent kinda has an unfair advantage to popping up with their 20-something languages. Very hard for me to distinguish between them, and the rest of SE Asia tbh.
Should definitely only play the audio to make it harder.
I found a slovak song that was singing in English, but I recognized the surname and put 2 and 2 together.
52 with at least a million native speakers according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Europe . Of course, limiting it by number of speakers will exclude languages with strong political or cultural presence, just to mention a few, Maltese, Icelandic or Welsh.
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Part of the reason I did so, however, was because the lyrics were often drowned out by the music. Hard to guess when you can barely hear what’s being sung.
Few nitpicks:
- Some videos are blocked on copyright claims, would be nice if they would auto-reload - sometimes my mouse would reveal the title of the video (alt text)
* an age-restricted video can show up (I am not logged-in to YouTube)
* a video is not guaranteed to actually have lyrics. Ony of my songs was a "danish" fully instrumental anime soundtrack
Say, I have a right to listen to Madonna from my Youtube Music subscription? A game, with the given permission to access my "music licenses" should be able to use that.
Still, I can guess the languages of 2/3 of the songs without hearing a word, by various letters on the screen (Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Hindi, Arabian, often Turkish, Kazakh, Chechen by their special letters). Faces and style often help more than the sound, too. (My highest score in solo mode without a timer is 104 so far).
Death metal tracks, highly distorted hip-hop tracks, ethereal choral track are usually hardest to determine.
Besides, it's a nice intro into various kinds of music all over the world, and across many decades. Worth playing just for that.
I don’t know if there’s a way for the author to disable that. But I think it’s a valid part of the metagame to use that information when guessing. Kinda like how the top geoguessr players use camera artifacts to deduce where the photo was taken.
I was curious about the composition of music, therefore a friend and I created/curated frequency-domain visualizations of a variety of music in different languages and interesting sounds using the Welch power spectral density estimation algorithm and Fast Fourier Transform. The visualizations are fun to look at and with some practice you can distinguish the different instruments and vocal tracks in each song.
Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cWixC3PVP8&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
Russian / Ukrainian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysqIz8-pRSE&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsJtqF5hCyE&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRjxDSIx3Zs&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
Hungarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNY3HOnJiUc&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXCdJ1Lh-48&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
A few other examples which might be interesting:
1. Dialtone using dual-tone multi-frequency signaling and 56K dial-up modem connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FomWraKuDFg&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
2. Deluxe Multitone Car Alarm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uKcvZL7HM&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
3. Composition using only sounds from Windows 98 and XP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lT-jr9sS6Y&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
4. Piano Music (Ballade Pour Adeline): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnAfrEk429w&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
5. Electronic Music Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MllJLIX1glg&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
6. Chiptunes (Mortimer's Chip-disko from Supertux): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWHAHPbYc0w&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
The Megatronix SC620 Six Tone Car Alarm is also fun to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXYc0gtOswQ&list=PLn67ccdhCs...
As well as the a cappella Starships (Nicki Minaj cover) by Mike Tompkins which has a mind-blowing breakdown of how he built up the composition from different vocals at the end: https://youtu.be/vDqHpWY1UD4?t=209
As others have noted, there are often many cues 'n' clues even before a single word is uttered. But also, I have trouble enough picking out words in my native tongue, let alone when transmogrified by musical prosody and accompaniment.
Today I learned that Polish sounds nothing like what I thought it sounded like :)
Found some absolute bangers from unexpected countries. Better than any ML algorithm in terms of recommending interesting music.
Feedback:
* Broken videos are a problem.
* I don't have time to report broken video during play.
* I often wanted to check out songs, but no time to open/save them during play. I want some way to look up tracks after a session.
* The pop-up after each guess is animated. Animations are resource intensive and take up too much time. Do you need a pop-up at all?
* I want to (clearly) see my HP during the game.
* As someone else mentioned, the video images often give away the answer. Picture of Shiva? Probably Sanskrit.
The indian subcontinent kinda has an unfair advantage to popping up with their 20-something languages. Very hard for me to distinguish between them, and the rest of SE Asia tbh.
Should definitely only play the audio to make it harder.
I found a slovak song that was singing in English, but I recognized the surname and put 2 and 2 together.