Overview
Lisper is a lisp-focused speech-practice app for the Kaggle Gemma 4 Good Hackathon. Record a phrase, get concise feedback on likely /s/ and /z/ patterns, try again.
Problem
Speech apps usually treat lisps as a tiny slice of a huge category. Daily practice needs a narrow loop, not a clinic simulator.
What I built
A LoRA adapter, merged model, browser-ready ONNX/WebGPU package for keyless local inference, a public demo, and a writeup. The browser path is the point: no hosted API key required to practice.
Hard parts
Tone. Useful feedback without pretending to replace a speech-language pathologist. Repetition has to feel low-pressure or people stop.
Result
Held-out eval: 2,000 rows, 0 hard errors on the final v18 path. Demo: Hugging Face Space. Writeup: Lisper.
