A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
329 points - yesterday at 11:18 AM
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socalgal2 yesterday at 6:37 PM
The voice does not sound like a native speaker. I don't mean it sounds like a non-human character, I mean something is subtly off. Timing or something. Is that intentional? Maybe pick a different TTS solution?
bentograd yesterday at 12:16 PM
This looks very cool, but I find it very hard to read the text against the moving background. The lights in the "windows" of the voxel building do not provide good contrast.
Tor3 yesterday at 1:16 PM
I don't know why, but that was an extreme load on my computer/browser. The picture changed every ten-fifteen seconds, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it wasn't something I wanted to watch. The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.
astrange yesterday at 11:06 PM
I opened it and the TTS mispronounced the first sentence on screen. (ie it ignored the furigana and misread the first word)
johngossman yesterday at 12:34 PM
Fun. I studied Japanese for two years, let it slide and now every Kanji is like "Hmmm, I've seen that before but..." I can still read kana though, which is nice to know.
netsharc yesterday at 4:48 PM
The evening mode has vibes of Ghost in the Shell's "chase UI", glimpses of which is in this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amKt8ttja1E
LastMuel yesterday at 12:53 PM
This site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted. I’m on the latest security release of iOS. Something off about that.
Lawyer24 yesterday at 2:03 PM
I am going to reach out to you via email. I like this project and I am building something similar. Maybe we can collaborate or keep in contact.
marginalia_nu yesterday at 1:48 PM
Voxel Tokyo has very pleasant vibes.
Zababa yesterday at 1:41 PM
This looks good and I like the idea but I don't get what the "practice" is here?
zelphirkalt yesterday at 8:08 PM
Meanwhile I am sitting in an InterCity"Express" train in Germany, which already started 14 minutes late, and somehow managed to drive so slowly, that at every stop another ~2 minutes were lost. Now just standing around at a stop, because of some medical emergency at the next station, and announced a delay of fucking 90 minutes. How long can it take to remove whoever causes the medical emergency from the tracks or wherever they are and continue driving? It is all so nuts here, all so idiotic. The last 10 times or so, that I have been traveling, every fucking time they have stupid issues.
And they don't even manage to have functioning displays inside the trains. Every now and then the displays are turned off. Why am I not allowed to see the up-to-date status?
b112 yesterday at 8:40 PM
I watched for a couple of minutes, and while it kept saying Japanese phrases, it just showed me floating by a large city landscape. Certainly nothing like being in a train.
Do you just need to wait a while to be in the train? Or for it to start?
fitsumbelay yesterday at 5:45 PM
very cool and runs pretty nicely on my 2019 mac mini
kingkool68 yesterday at 5:38 PM
This reminds me of Sim Copter from when I was a kid
mrbluecoat yesterday at 1:29 PM
What a cool idea! Need something similar for Korean - perhaps the EverLine light rail line in Yongin.
swang yesterday at 6:42 PM
any volume control? voice is a bit loud and i couldn't find anything to turn it down.
rambojohnson yesterday at 9:01 PM
the experience for attempting to record my voice during practices is atrocious. the background music continues to play, and the obnoxious AI voice interrupted me at least twice, then it switched to "transcribing..." wth?
cute concept, please fix that flow..
echelon yesterday at 1:15 PM
Does this scale beyond N5/N4?
This could be a really useful tool.
badabidi yesterday at 5:01 PM
Epic!
rimworld yesterday at 12:49 PM
love the tunes
deleted yesterday at 12:28 PM
nexus2045 yesterday at 2:23 PM
lovely
wormpilled yesterday at 2:51 PM
Slop
palachdigital yesterday at 7:07 PM
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Keyframe yesterday at 2:46 PM
Looks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?
winuser3661 yesterday at 7:22 PM
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ath3nd yesterday at 8:56 PM
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