Hey, I think it's neat, Jason:
I've only had time to check out a few, but, form the matrix it seems
worth it just to get a line like ' this world window world wealthy'.
So, are we allowed to give you a yea, as well as 'just nay thoughts
really'?
Doug
On 14-Apr-05, at 8:43 PM, Jason Nelson wrote:
> Dearest all,
>
> I’ve recently finished the first few poems of a speech
> to text poetics project. And the resulting poems are
> PRINT based so I’m attempting a return to paper. The
> website below has a description of the project and
> links to the first few poems. But briefly: I take
> media files (speeches, movies, ambient noise, radio
> etc.) and record the audio through a speech to text
> program. The program, being trained to my voice, reads
> everything wrong and spits out these long single
> spaced files of awkward text and phrases loosely based
> on the original. Think of it as a translation of a
> translation of a translation of a translation
> .the
> code beneath our language. I then reform those text
> files into poetry (using certain rules).
>
> The URL:
> http://www.heliozoa.com/speech/speechtext.html
>
> I would love to hear thoughts on if these poems (and
> the project is compelling), do they work for you, just
> nay thoughts really. I know this isn’t really a new
> idea, but my first few attempts turned out such
> interesting poems, I wanted to take it further. And
> lastly, anyone know of any print mags or journals that
> might be interested in something like this?
>
> The URL again (just to be cheeky):
> http://www.heliozoa.com/speech/speechtext.html
>
> Cheers and thanks
> .. Jason Nelson
>
>
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Douglas Barbour
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