A short 1-2 day workshop introducing speech recognition and speech synthesis techniques for the creation of interactive artwork. We use pre-compiled open-source tools (CMU Sphinx ASR and Festival TTS), and focus on the specifics of language model construction and creative deployment of the technologies as vehicles for creating meaning.
='''Background:*'''=*If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk to Things, What Do We Say? '' Natalie Jeremijenko. 2005-03-05 [http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/voicechip]**also see the responses by Simon Penny, Lucy Suchmann, and Natalielinked from that page.*''Dialogue with a Monologue: Voice Chips and the Products of Abstract Speech. '' [http://topologicalmedialab.net/xinwei/classes/readings/Jeremijenko/VoiceChips.pdf]
='''Speech Recognition'''=
