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by mrspeaker 2068 days ago
This is similar (but much much better) to a demo I was making for JS1K a bunch of years back: http://mrspeaker.github.io/js1k16/

My "big idea" was to use the speech synthesis API (I still liked how I used it)... but I thought it was funny, because it felt like cheating to say "1K" when it relied on so many megabytes of APIs!

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TIL of the speech synthesis API. It's been around since 2013/2014 https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_speechsynthesis
The speech synthesis sounds like it is panicking. Quite funny.
Does it count as megabytes when it's bog standard API ?
Nah, of course not! It's fair game (otherwise you'd first have to invent the universe). It was just the speech synth API was pretty new when I did that, so it felt sneaky ;)

Also - p01, you are a hero to us all. MONOSPACE is beautiful, congrats on the Assembly win!

This is some next-level rap music, nice.