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Founded: | 2012 |
About: | 2012 Chinese New Year iPhone App ! HuatAh! |
Release Date: | Jan 2012 |
Company Overview: | HuatAh is a FREE iPhone app created in a fun and interactive way. The concept of this App is that user have to invite the '财神' also known as the 'God of Fortune' to their screen, they then have to shout 'Huat Ah!' that translate '發啊' in dialect, which means 'getting rich'. In return the God of Fortune would be giving them 4 digit lucky number as a sign of blessing and fortune, this lucky number ...is base on the 天 時 地 利 人 和 which mean 'a situation where timing, geographical location and the people are very favorable' The technologies behind this App is pretty simple, every voice clip that has been created was sent over to the server for verification, it leverage on the state of art technology, Google Speech-to-text (something like how Siri work) that convert the sound files into text, the server then use several complex algorithm and verification method to verify the best match for 'HuatAh' which will then use to calculate the lucky number base on that. ---------------- Technology We have used HTML5 with the help of iPhone Webkit It's programmed purely in HTML5 + CSS + jQuery + Adobe (Edge) Preview 3 Communicating to a proxy Google Speech-Text api using nodeJS and Curl Convert iPhone Recording into Sound file (wave/ulaw) and use ffmpeg to convert to flac before submitting to Google for text converting verification See More |