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Data credit: All match data is provided by snooker.org, maintained by Hermund Ardalen. This tool would not exist without his generosity in providing API access.
About this project
This tool reads snooker scores aloud for blind and visually impaired viewers, so they can follow live matches on television without needing to see the on-screen scoreboard.
The idea came from a request on the Dave Hendon snooker podcast, where a blind listener asked for commentators to call the score more often. This is a small, non-commercial answer to that — built using the open data feed from snooker.org, with the kind permission of its creator Hermund Ardalen.
Press Start at the top and the page will read out frame scores as they change, with a regular summary every couple of minutes. Use the settings in the sidebar to control how often scores are read and which matches to follow.
Note: the scoreboard updates frame-by-frame, not point-by-point within a frame. For the live action during a frame, the TV or radio commentary fills the gap.