pic to speech #2 Lev Manovich

Daisy 2000 voice synthesised project

Bicycle Built for Two Thousand from Aaron on Vimeo.

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Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.

Why this song? The song "Daisy Bell," originally written by Harry Dacre in 1892, was

made famous in 1962 by John Kelly, Max Mathews, and Carol Lockbaum as the first example of musical speech synthesis. In contrast to the 1962 version, Bicycle Built For 2,000 was synthesized with a distributed system of human voices from all over the world.

My Ubiquitous Body- angel voices

The video of the Istallation "My Ubiquitous Body":


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Angel_F is a digital being whose body is built from the language formed by the interconnection of the expressions of thousands of internet users and websites. The AI behind Angel_ constantly reads thousands of sources among blogs, websites and social network feeds, assembling language through pattern recognition schemes, thus learning its digital language by observing recurring patterns in the languages used by humans on the net.

The projection shows a dynamic ever changing voyage inside the mind of the Artificial intelligence. Sentences are generated by traversing the linguistic graph created by the AI during its three years of life by browsing the web pages of thousands of internet users worldwide and on social networks. Sentences are pronounced in voice synthesis and the sound is generated according to the an evaluation algorithm deciding the “interestingness” of the sentences according to the AI’s point of view.

More info about the installation at this link
Angel-F Team
http://www.facebook.com/l/7689b;www.angel-f.it
http://www.facebook.com/l/7689b;www.artisopensource.net
http://www.facebook.com/l/7689b;www.nodefest.net/