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The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

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Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

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Post by jsmeaton »

nowarninglabel wrote: post #21

It's amazing how distinguishable accents are. I wonder how much voice recognition software keys off of accent? I've a few South/Eastern Asia friends that never do well with spoken GPS recognition, but if it could know their native tongue was Gujarati or Thai then I imagine it could do a much better job of analyzing their English. I was pleasantly surprised to make it to 800.

I work in the call centre space which deals with voice recognition IVRS. If there is no voice pack available for your specific country, a number of 'utterances' are collected to train the recogniser. So, yes, accents are used in the voice recognition software that I'm familiar with.

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

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Post by nkoren »

lars512 wrote: post #9
gamegoblin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I encountered a whole lot of lag. Some buttons took 5+ seconds to respond.

Yeah, sorry about that. I'd planned a little more infrastructure work before submitting it to HN. Wish me luck :)

Infrastructure is good, but some of the lag could be fixed with code. For example: the page should already know whether a given answer is correct, and give a response without needing to hit the server at all. This would give you instantaneous feedback, which the user can digest while the next audio file is cached. As it is, having to wait 5-10 seconds for my button-presses to register is really killing the enjoyability of what is otherwise a very cool concept.

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

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Post by neil_s »

Biggest bug for me is that if you click on one of the two languages, it still waits till the entire clip finishes playing before progressing to tell me 'right' or 'wrong'.

UPDATE: never mind, its not when the audio finishes playing, its just slow to load.

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

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Post by joeyo »

jpatokal wrote: post #42
jpatokal wrote: post #39

850. It would be a bit nicer if the randomly selected other language choices came from different language families: one of the three I got wrong was Bosnian vs Croatian, even though the difference is arguably a political construct (just don't say that to a Bosnian or Croat...). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_standard_Bosnian... The difference between Punjabi and Hindi is also pretty subtle. Mistaking Tha…

2nd attempt 1050. Had precisely the same sound sample twice in a row though? Also, this serves as a pretty handy hint that when you're completely stumped by something you've never, ever heard before, the answer is probably "Dinka": http://greatlanguagegame.com/stats/

Indeed. The Dinka sample is recorded off the radio or phone and is very difficult to hear as well (It's not like I really know what Dinka sounds like, but if it were easier to hear I could at least do a better job of eliminating the other options).

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

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Post by personlurking »

lars512 wrote: post #3

Hi guys, I'm the author. Here's a related blog post I did introducing the game: http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2013/09/01/introducing-the-gre... Feedback's much appreciated, and if you encounter any bugs, please report them via email to lars+glg@yencken.org If there's a language you'd like to see that's missing, consider helping out by finding some good quality language samples or news podcasts in that language and em…

Cool game! Reminds me of Omniglot's language quizes http://www.omniglot.com/blog/?p=9100

700 here.

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