Description

Mimicker Alarm, a Microsoft Garage Project, isa free morning alarm clock app that helps you wake up from sleepand stay up by playing a simple alarm game, called a "Mimic". Todismiss your alarm in the morning, you must mimic the action given.We might ask you to snap a selfie, speak a phrase, or even get outof bed! The Mimic games require you to be awake, alert, smart, anduse your self and your surroundings, so be ready to move when youralarm fires.

Watch out – if you don’t finish the game in time, we’ll assumeyou’ve fallen back to sleep and your alarm will start ringingagain. Once you complete the Mimic and successfully dismissed youralarm, share your personalized results with your friends to showhow you woke up and beat the clock.

Features include:
* First run experience to help you learn how to use MimickerAlarm
* Alarm customization for time, day, ringtone, snooze, andMimic
* Choice of snooze or dismiss for each alarm
* Multiple Mimics to wake up every morning with: Match theexpression, capture the color, complete the tongue twister, orshuffle between all three
* Personalized images you can share with friends after eachalarm

Mimicker Alarm is a Microsoft Garage Project and we built it usingMicrosoft Project Oxford, a platform of artificial intelligenceAPIs. The Emotion API is used to power Express yourself – a gamethat requires you to mimic the emotion listed, the Speech API isused to listen to your attempt at our tongue twister challenge, andthe Computer Vision API is used to analyze colors in a photo forour color capture Mimic. Mimicker Alarm works best when connectedto the internet, but you are not required to be connected in orderto use our alarm app.

Images, audio, video, or other data that you upload when usingMimicker Alarm are sent to Project Oxford APIs in order to supportthe fun interactive activities included in the app. The data youupload, along with anonymous usage data may be used by Microsoftfor service improvement purposes. To protect your privacy, we donot use any of the uploaded data to identify or contact you. Formore information about Microsoft privacy policies, see our privacystatement.

All of our code for Mimicker Alarm is available on GitHub where youcan view the source, file issues, or even contribute your ownMimic. You can check out our repo here:https://github.com/Microsoft/ProjectOxford-Apps-MimickerAlarm. Wewant to hear from you – what can you build using Microsoft ProjectOxford?

The Garage turns fresh ideas into real projects. Learn more athttp://garage.microsoft.com.