Footnotes

Touch grass · make a beat

Your walk,
as a beat.

Sounds to listen for

Footnotes records real microphone audio, including nearby voices. Recording, sound recognition, the beat and the beatbox are all made on your phone. For the ElevenLabs beatboxes, only the tempo, length and rhythm pattern go to the beatbox server; for the Gemma 4 title and beat, only the names and counts of the sounds heard. Never your recording.

Recording

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Recording the sounds around you.

Listen to the world around you. There is no need to watch this screen.

Your sounds, becoming notes.

Lip and jaw moves traced from Spencer X, “One Beatboxer, 20 Beatbox Snares” (CC BY 3.0) with MediaPipe: points only, jaw mirrored and narrowed, moves enlarged. Mouth sounds: giddster and ipaghost on Freesound, CC0.

Starts automatically when your beat is ready.

Your walk

The original recording

Your beat OPEN · YAMNet

Real sounds in your walk's rhythm

Starts automatically when you stop recording.

Human mouth OPEN · CC0

Real mouth sounds on every hit

Waiting

ElevenLabs Clean AI

Tight and clean, step by step

Waiting

ElevenLabs Deep AI

Deep chest and lip bass

Waiting

Surprise mix MIX

All the mouth beatboxes, cut and remixed

Waiting for the beatboxes

KickSnareHi-hatBigger = louder · % = how closely it follows your walk (rhythm · loud/soft)

Recording details

Sounds collected

    What the model heard most