Cascando: Samuel Beckett

For the curious there are two recorded versions of Cascando: A radio play by Samuel Beckett - one in which 'Voice' is human http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samuel-Beckett-Works-Original-Broadcasts/dp/0712305300Another in which 'Voice' is artificialhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Charles-Dodge-Retrospective-1977-2009-Baird/dp/B003IG06QQ/ref=sr_1_cc_1?... read more

Christopher Newell
Posted 16th October 2011 at 3:44 PM

Speaking Piano

Bruce came across this pretty remarkable piece of technology -http://www.youtube.com/watch?... read more

Christopher Newell
Posted 16th October 2011 at 3:28 PM

The Tingle Factor

Several network members have been involved in various manifestations of a project called 'The Tingle Factor.'You can read about one mini project in this article published in 'The Opera Critic.'http://theoperacritic.com/tocarticles.php?article=cntingle1011.... read more

Christopher Newell
Posted 16th October 2011 at 11:42 AM

Graham Pullin's work

Graham is unable to attend the next meeting but has provided a video of some earlier work: http://imd.dundee.ac.uk/sixspeakingchairs/video.htmlSpeech Hedge http://vimeo.com/14582462and a pitch for a new project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?... read more

Christopher Newell
Posted 16th October 2011 at 11:36 AM

Whither the Artificial Voice?

In order to explore the issue of artificiality, it would first seem to be necessary to specify what we mean by non-artificial speech. For example, if we define natural speech as being the linguistic behaviour exhibited by a normal human vocal tract in a quiet non-reverberant environment, then we can start to distinguish different ways in which artificiality might be introduced.For example, it is possible to itemise the following ... read more

Roger Moore
Posted 20th September 2011 at 5:19 PM