Hackathon Vietnam afterthoughts

None of us has been working in any fields related to our idea, yet we strove to broaden our horizons. Without this stressful competition, who knows when would we be aware of the Webkit Speech Recognition integrated inside Google Chrome? Or researching on Beat Detection (big appreciation to this great blog post, very timely) and Pitch Analysis.

Talking about Speech Recognition and Speech-to-Text technologies, here is one of our samples used in this Hackathon:

From the awesome Fight Club movie

And this is the amusing transcribed result we got from a premium Speech Recognition service:

Yeah hey I am just like all the second like the is do not call … I … like somebody else I was going to ask if I do not hear from you guys in my room but it’s on those … I remove your shoes or white polo as long as soon as you find … your car is not like a hey … whether you were doing for black … everything with God and … are … I am going to start packing the video and … oh..

And of course we didn’t use that service in our application…

All the hearts go to my team

It is not the war you fight but who you fight it with the most important! This adventure is nothing without my precious friends. In the hyper race with other teams, it was our endless jokes that kept us up and alive throughout the night. We joked about everything and everyone of us, from a dumb piece of code we produced to the “D.D.O.S attack” when Hackathon teams submitted their work to ChallengePost server. Even when we failed to submit our work due to the “D.D.O.S attack”, our humor helped to calm our minds so that we could find another way around to submit.

Closing remarks

Happiness is all about the adventure. Although we came back without any prize, we were all rewarded. The hacking spirits - both outside and inside - overwhelmed me with awe.

And yes, every effort well spent :)