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tomasien
Wow 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)

ollysb
It was way off for me, after a minute of attempts I couldn't get it to understand árbol (spanish vocab)
ollysb
Not 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
Note 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
Tried 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
Hope 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
This 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 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!