Thomas Steiner 
One of the apps in the Project Fugu 🐡 API Showcase is USpeaking (app link: https://uspeaking.netlify.app/, showcase link: https://developer.chrome.com/fugu-showcase/#uspeaking.netlify.app), and whenever I deploy a new version of the Showcase, my computer randomly shouts one of the phrases stored in the app at me. It just asked me about the rest room 🚽. Took me a while until I chased this down. Fun times!
Jason McNeill@tomayac What does the USpeaking app do?
SEPIA Open Assistant@grindstonewebdev @tomayac good question 😅. The GitHub description says "lets practice English" so I'm assuming it uses Web Speech API to speak and record audio. Two functions that often use Google/Microsoft/Apple cloud-services btw.
@sepia @grindstonewebdev It’s a clever way to learn proper pronunciation: it outputs phrases via the Web Speech API, and then makes you repeat them. If what the Web Speech API recognizes matches what the device just said, you move on to the next phrase.
@tomayac @grindstonewebdev regarding to project Fugu how would you evaluate such a showcase? What I mean is, Firefox for example implements Web Speech API (both TTS and STT) but has no own servers and TTS often depends on the underlying OS.