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1KB JavaScript Numbers Station


Code Golf is the art/science of creating wonderful little demos in an artificially constrained environment. This year the js1024 competition was looking for entries with the theme of "Creepy". I am not a serious bit-twiddler. I can't create JS shaders which produce intricate 3D worlds in a scrap of code. But I can use slightly obscure JavaScript APIs! There's something deliciously creepy about…

I can't create JS shaders which produce intricate 3D worlds in a scrap of code. In order to make it creepy, I played about with the rate (how fast or slow it speaks) and the pitch (how high or low). Randomly altering the pitch, speed, and voice to read out numbers and dissociated words produces, I think, a rather creepy effect.

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