ApexBot – An (speech-based) interactive web-based bot
Hello fellow combinators, First of all I've been reading Ycombinator for a while (especially show HN), but have never really posted anything. The ideas that people post on show HN always intrigue me. So I thought I'd share something that I have been working on for the past weeks. My idea was to write a webapp for my smart mirror, so I have built an (speech-based) interactive web-based bot (which currently only works on Chrome ;( ). The current (alpha) version consists of following features: Speech recognition: which allows you to interact with the bot by using voice commands. Text-to-speech:…
ApexBot – An (speech-based) interactive web-based bot launched on April 6, 2017 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello fellow combinators, First of all I've been reading Ycombinator for a while (especially show HN), but have never really posted anything. The ideas that people post on show HN always intrigue me. So I thought I'd share something that I have been working on for the past weeks. My idea was to write a webapp for my…
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