honk & whistle
Listen, mimic, score, share.
A friend scored /10 average — rounds . Beat them.
How it works
- Listen. Tap Play to hear today's first sound.
- Mimic. Tap Record and copy it with your voice in 3 seconds.
- Score. Three rounds, one daily score. Share to challenge a friend.
Today's score
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A new puzzle drops at midnight.
Reference (top) vs your attempt (bottom)
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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:
- Timbre — how similar the colour of your voice was, judged by a pretrained audio model (Google's YAMNet).
- Rhythm — how well you matched the shape over time: attack, decay, when sound starts and stops.
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.
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.