I built a browser game that asks your microphone to imitate a robot

I wanted a microphone project with a very small brief: hear a sound, copy it, and see how close you got. That became Mimic Party Online , a browser game where each round gives you a short sound cue and one recording attempt. The cue might be a meme clip, an animal call, a machine noise, or something that is hard to describe without making the sound yourself. It looks like a toy, and it is. It also turned into a useful little audio problem. A score based only on volume would be boring, so the game needs to compare the shape of two sounds while staying fast enough to run in a browser. The round is intentionally simple The player does five things: Choose a sound pack. Listen to the reference. Record one take. Listen to the take. Read the score. The replay is important. People tend to remember the sound they meant to make. The recording tells them what actually came out. A convincing robot alarm can turn into a tired bicycle horn pretty quickly. Quick mode runs for four rounds. Survival mode gives the player three Mic lives and keeps the run going until those lives are gone. The game also has different routes, so a player can protect a streak or accept a shorter recording window for more points. The browser does the audio work The recording stays in the browser. The game uses the microphone stream, converts the take to mono PCM at 16 kHz, and extracts the values needed for scoring. The audio does not travel to a scoring server. For each take, the extractor looks at signals such as: pitch contour timing and active duration attack and energy rhythm and onset positions spectral shape The game does not use every signal for every sound. A pitched cue cares more about contour, while a machine noise depends more on its shape and attack. A rhythmic sound needs the hits to arrive at roughly the right moments. This is also why the score is more useful when it has labels. A result of 68 is not very instructive by itself. "Timing: 74" gives you something to work on in the next atte