“Technology has come to interrupt practices”; says Mikaël Lavollé, co-founder of ThisIsBlindTest. His company has two blind testing rooms in Paris and licenses throughout France. Its specificity? A competition based on voice recognition thanks to smartphones.
6000 tracks, 60 playlists and 5 difficulty levels, everything looks like classic karaoke. However, Mikaël Lavollé wanted to combine competition and celebration by offering blind test games, this game where you have to guess the title and artist of a song.
Thus, each player is equipped with an iPhone provided by the company. While the music is playing, the participants must press a button on the phone to activate the voice recognition. The player can give all the answers that come to mind.
referee technology
As a result, cheating is not possible, since it is the speech recognition system that decides and decides who gave the correct answer. No more need for a moderator or a referee. As soon as the correct answer is found, the chorus automatically starts “so after the competition comes the party”. It is first and foremost a game of speed, so the faster the player is, the more points he earns. This ultimately leads to a general classification.
This device is possible thanks to the application that the company has developed for two years. Its technology is based on hardware for the microphone and software for the application.
Next step, the players’ rooms. ThisIsBlindTest launches in a few weeks the application available for a digitized board game. “It was a request from our players,” says the co-founder.
Source: BFM TV
