What this demo is
It is the FantaVoice auctioneer, detached from a real auction. The panel simulates an open lot: you say an amount, the auctioneer repeats it out loud and starts counting — «going once, twice, three times» — exactly as it would on auction night.
It answers a single question, before you bring the software to a table with eight people: does it understand what I say, in this room, with this microphone?
How to try it
Turn the microphone on and say a whole number between 1 and 1000, as you would at an auction: «twelve», «thirty-five», «a hundred and forty». The number appears in the panel and the countdown restarts at every raise.
Next to it you also find the hand-typed bid and the quick raises: the same routes that stay open during a real auction, because in a noisy room not everything goes through the voice.
If you are testing with speakers on, keep the volume low: the microphone hears the auctioneer too, and at a real auction a speaker away from the microphone, or an earpiece, works better.
What it does not do
It does not create an auction, does not know your teams and does not track credits: there are no buyers, budgets or squads to fill here. Nothing that happens on this page is saved, and no sale becomes real.
For a real auction — with teams, credits, squads and recovery after an interruption — you need to create the league: from there the auctioneer becomes the one that actually sells.
If the microphone hears nothing
In order: check that the browser has microphone permission, that the selected device is the right one (a desktop often has none connected at all) and that the input level is not at zero. The first start downloads the Italian recogniser, about fifty megabytes, and may look stuck for a few seconds.
Italian recognition runs inside the browser: audio never leaves the device and reaches no server, ours or anyone else’s. We record nothing and keep no transcripts.