Newsletter #13: Punching the Clown

Hello again from team KFJ!

It’s coming down to the wire here at speech recognition headquarters as we push to finish our beta experience for soft presentations. We’ve recorded another new script that incorporates a ton of feedback that we received from our last playtest, and we tested it today to good effect.

Our weekly playtests have helped us hone our product tremendously – without them, we’d have no idea what was or wasn’t working for Fred and our performance. Despite the amount of recording work needed to re-work the script weekly, it’s allowed us to iterate on our product significantly – and Fred gets better with every round!

We created our 3 minute project video and 30 second promo video for Stories That Listen – you can find those on our site at the “video” tab.

Next week, we have Soft presentations followed by Thanksgiving break! We plan to try and get as much polishing work done as possible heading into our final presentation, and to also collect our research data in a more manageable and presentable form for future use.

Wish us luck!

-Team KFJ