{"id":6225,"date":"2017-11-16T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2017-11-16T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:01:33","slug":"try-googles-mystery-animal-game-and-why-silly-stuff-like-this-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/try-googles-mystery-animal-game-and-why-silly-stuff-like-this-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Google&#8217;s &#8220;Mystery Animal&#8221; game (and why silly stuff like this matters)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mysteryanimal.withgoogle.com\/\">Through your browser<\/a> or Google Home, you can play a &#8220;20 Questions\u201d-style game to guess the name of an animal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pE982gjjHEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Silly, right? But in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nicolehe\/voice-technology-is-an-opportunity-to-make-weird-stuff-d4296ce7448a\">Voice Technology is an Opportunity to Make Weird Stuff<\/a>,\u201d creative technologist Nicole He explains yhy it\u2019s time to experiment with voice, and she offers some technical tips on how to do it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019re in what I\u2019m going to call The 1996 Web Design Era of voice technology. The web was created for something practical (sharing information between scientists), but it didn\u2019t take very long for people to come up with strange and creative things to do with it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mysteryanimal.withgoogle.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NewImage-15.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"414\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pE982gjjHEU\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/17\/11\/googles-impractical-voice-experiments\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through your browser or Google Home, you can play a &#8220;20 Questions\u201d-style game to guess the name of an animal. Silly, right? But in &#8220;Voice Technology is an Opportunity to Make Weird Stuff,\u201d creative technologist Nicole He explains yhy it\u2019s time to experiment with voice, and she offers some technical tips on how to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6227,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}