honk & whistle

A sound, your voice, a score.

Warming up the sound engine — about 17 MB on the first visit, instant after that.

honk & whistle

Listen, mimic, score, share.

Pick a sound and tap Play.
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About

What is this?

honk & whistle is a tiny voice-mimicry game. Pick a sound, listen, then try to make the same sound with your voice. You get a score from 0 to 10 and a sharable link to challenge someone else to beat it.

How the score works

Two things are measured and blended:

A perfect mimic of a sound against itself scores 10. A genuine attempt usually lands in the 5–9 range. Boing and Hum are the friendliest references; Bell is hardest because no human voice can match a pure 880 Hz harmonic.

Privacy & security

Audio never leaves your device. The microphone opens only for the 3-second recording window and closes immediately. There is no server: the whole game runs in your browser. No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking.

The only network request after the page loads is the one-time fetch of the audio model from Google's TF Hub (about 17 MB). Nothing about you, your voice, or your scores is uploaded — anywhere, ever.

On a phone?

Designed for mobile. Open in Safari (iOS) or Chrome (Android), tap a button, allow microphone access. If the iPhone silent switch is on, iOS Safari will mute the reference sound — flick it off. The first visit downloads the audio engine; afterwards it's cached and instant.

Anonymous play data

Once you complete a day's three rounds, we send your three scores and the puzzle date to our server so we can understand whether the scoring is fair. Nothing else — no audio, no IP, no fingerprint. See the privacy page for the full detail.

Get in touch

Feedback, ideas, or want to know more? Email thegreatsuperbobo@gmail.com.

Keyboard: Tab between controls, Space or Enter to activate.

Having trouble?

1. Microphone is blocked or not working?

The page asks for microphone access the first time you tap Record. If you tapped Don't Allow by accident, the browser remembers — it won't ask again unless you change the setting yourself. Find your device below:

📱 iPhone & iPad

  1. Open Settings → scroll to your browser (Safari, Chrome, or Edge).
  2. Make sure Microphone is set to Allow or Ask.
  3. Also check Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone — your browser must have a green switch beside it.
  4. Come back to this page and refresh, then tap Record again.

📱 Android (Pixel, Samsung, etc.) with Chrome

  1. Tap the padlock (or info icon) next to the URL at the top of Chrome.
  2. Tap Permissions → set Microphone to Allow.
  3. If Microphone isn't listed: Settings → Apps → Chrome → Permissions → Microphone → Allow.
  4. Reload this page and tap Record again.

💻 Mac / Windows / Linux desktop

  1. Click the padlock icon next to the URL.
  2. Set Microphone to Allow.
  3. Reload the page and tap Record again.

2. Can't hear the sound?

3. The score seems wrong?

4. Still stuck?

Email thegreatsuperbobo@gmail.com with what's happening — your device, browser, and what you tried. A screenshot helps.
Testing

For verifying the scoring pipeline. Self-test scores the current reference against itself — should always be ~10. If it isn't, something on this device is preventing the model from running correctly.