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I feel your pain. I once watched a single episode of Jeopardy 50+ times in pursuit of timings for a prototype app demo.

I could have a good half-hour conversion about the nuances of Alex Trebek's vocal inflections... shudders


Ha, I’d love to hear more. What was the app for? I can’t imagine why you’d have to pick up on Trebek’s elocution??
Less interesting than you'd expect, as it was for a rapid mobile app prototyping class.

We had a telesync'd demo that let you play along with a Jeopardy episode by yelling answers at your phone. The app knew the timing markers for when the question was asked + when a contestant answered, so would only give you credit if you beat the contestant with the correct answer.

Our model user was "people who yell answers at the screen when Jeopardy is on."

Still think it would have made a decent companion app to the show though...

Trebek's elocution is just something you pick up on after rewatching an episode enough times. He has really interesting ways of emphasizing things, but they seem normal if you're just listening to them once through.

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