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• chrisguilbeau
  I spent three months with my family in Japan (Feb-Apr). We were in Osaka and used trains exclusively, just working remotely, homeschooling, living life with a few day/weekend trips. This captures for me the simple, clean, engineered beauty of being in a Japanese city. I just sat an watched for a while feeling like I was back there. Having the easy to learn characters above the traditional ones is also super nice. Amazing.Being able to hover over the characters and see the phonetics would be a nice bonus for us beginners.
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  socalgal2
  The voice does not sound like a native speaker. I don't mean it sounds like a non-human character, I mean something is subtly off. Timing or something. Is that intentional? Maybe pick a different TTS solution?
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  johngossman
  Fun. I studied Japanese for two years, let it slide and now every Kanji is like "Hmmm, I've seen that before but..." I can still read kana though, which is nice to know.
• bentograd
  This looks very cool, but I find it very hard to read the text against the moving background. The lights in the "windows" of the voxel building do not provide good contrast.
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  Tor3
  I don't know why, but that was an extreme load on my computer/browser. The picture changed every ten-fifteen seconds, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it wasn't something I wanted to watch. The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.
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  LastMuel
  This site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted. I’m on the latest security release of iOS. Something off about that.
• astrange
  I opened it and the TTS mispronounced the first sentence on screen. (ie it ignored the furigana and misread the first word)
• netsharc
  The evening mode has vibes of Ghost in the Shell's "chase UI", glimpses of which is in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amKt8ttja1E
• Lawyer24
  I am going to reach out to you via email. I like this project and I am building something similar. Maybe we can collaborate or keep in contact.
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  marginalia_nu
  Voxel Tokyo has very pleasant vibes.
• kevin_thibedeau
  The trains need to be double-tracked rather than passing through each other.
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  zelphirkalt
  Meanwhile I am sitting in an InterCity"Express" train in Germany, which already started 14 minutes late, and somehow managed to drive so slowly, that at every stop another ~2 minutes were lost. Now just standing around at a stop, because of some medical emergency at the next station, and announced a delay of fucking 90 minutes. How long can it take to remove whoever causes the medical emergency from the tracks or wherever they are and continue driving? It is all so nuts here, all so idiotic. The last 10 times or so, that I have been traveling, every fucking time they have stupid issues.And they don't even manage to have functioning displays inside the trains. Every now and then the displays are turned off. Why am I not allowed to see the up-to-date status?
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  Zababa
  This looks good and I like the idea but I don't get what the "practice" is here?
• mrbluecoat
  What a cool idea! Need something similar for Korean - perhaps the EverLine light rail line in Yongin.
• fitsumbelay
  very cool and runs pretty nicely on my 2019 mac mini
• kingkool68
  This reminds me of Sim Copter from when I was a kid
• b112
  I watched for a couple of minutes, and while it kept saying Japanese phrases, it just showed me floating by a large city landscape. Certainly nothing like being in a train.Do you just need to wait a while to be in the train? Or for it to start?
• swang
  any volume control? voice is a bit loud and i couldn't find anything to turn it down.
• badabidi
  Epic!
• rimworld
  love the tunes
• rambojohnson
  the experience for attempting to record my voice during practices is atrocious. the background music continues to play, and the obnoxious AI voice interrupted me at least twice, then it switched to "transcribing..." wth?cute concept, please fix that flow..
• echelon
  Does this scale beyond N5/N4?This could be a really useful tool.
• anon
  undefined
• nexus2045
  lovely
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  wormpilled
  Slop
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  Keyframe
  Looks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?
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