Ok Google, talk to Code Tutor!

Code Tutor is still under active development as of this post. Contributions are welcome!

Try it now: 🅖 Ask Code Tutor to teach me

Version 3 of Code Tutor is on the Google Assistant! Just say "Ok Google, talk to Code Tutor".

• App description: https://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/000000668d1fb538

You can get the Google Assistant on your mobile device:

• Android: https://assistant.google.com/intl/en_ca/platforms/phones
• iPhone/iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/google-assistant/id1220976145

I'm still improving it. That's why I'm open-sourcing it so we can help it improve faster together. You can also learn from the code to more quickly build your own voice app: https://github.com/hchiam/code-tutor BTW: Can you find all the hidden features? :)

LUI 4 Update

Lui's back.

Suggestions? Wake-up-words? The voice assistant side-project got upgraded.

"Computer what can you do"

To talk to Lui, start by saying "computer", and then your request. For example: "computer what can you do", or "computer play number guessing game".


"Computer stop/start listening"

You can talk to Lui completely hands-free in Chrome. If you want the voice assistant to stop responding to everything you say, just tell it: "computer stop listening".


"Computer let's program"

One of the newest features is you can get Lui to find code for you. This may come in handy with the feature of programming with your voice (which is still in development). Just say "computer let's program" to see a suggested next action.
 


Links:

Live demo: https://codepen.io/hchiam/full/WOLOJG/


Feedback: https://goo.gl/forms/Nwf8TXvOW2vE2OHA3

 
Release notes: https://github.com/hchiam/language-user-interface/releases


Lui's premier blog post: https://hchiam.blogspot.ca/2017/08/lui.html

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The Mental Temperature Calculator Returns - with the Google Voice Assistant!

Visual mnemonic of increasing accuracy (in 3 or 4 steps).

Celsius? Fahrenheit? Do you want to learn and practice a shortcut* to convert temperature in your head? Using ideas from earlier work (here and here), I made a voice user interface app for the Google Assistant! You can also find an in-browser version on API.AI:

Built using Actions on Google, API.AI, and Glitch. 

Related demo: https://codepen.io/hchiam/full/NjmOdW

Earlier post: https://hchiam.blogspot.ca/2016/09/how-to-convert-temperature-quickly-in.html

*Accuracy is at worst only 1 degree off, plus 1% of the original number. This means you're covered for small numbers, and when you go into the hundreds, you'll be off by a couple degrees. For example: 300 F is actually 93.3 C, but 92 C is pretty close for a shortcut. You can progressively increase accuracy, but with a diminishing ROI or "return on effort": https://hchiam.blogspot.ca/2015/12/how-to-convert-temperature-f-c-quickly.html
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LUI: a JARVIS-like Interface

Meet LUI. Ask questions.

LUI = Language User Interface

Ask LUI questions. LUI will talk and try to give a helpful reply. Think: a very simple version of JARVIS from Marvel's Iron Man movies.

Instructions: You can type questions into a textbox and it'll reply with a synthesized voice (sometimes it opens google search results or google maps, depending on your question). 

Even better, if you have speech recognition software, you can just turn that software on and have it type out what you say into the textbox for you. That way, it can feel less like you're sending text messages, and more like you're talking to LUI.

Example speech recognition software: on Macs, there's Mac Dictation, which comes out-of-the-box on newer macs. You can activate it by pressing the <fn> key twice. If your cursor is blinking in the textbox, then it'll start typing out what you say, and then LUI will respond to you. 

LUI should work on both laptop and mobile devices. Let me know if there's any issues and I can update the source code live!

Try it out! https://codepen.io/hchiam/full/WOLOJG/

Code also available on GitHub. You can see LUI among my live demos on Codepen. 

If you use ad blockers, NoScript, etc.: you'll need to enable rawgit and responsive voice. Authorize geolocation when requested. Other features require API calls and will be updated in real time as I push updates to GitHub.

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Please - An Experimental Programming Language

I built an experimental programming language. Check it out: https://github.com/hchiam/please 

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