A few months ago, for a Design brief at art school ("read a book out loud") I decided to read Allen Ginsberg's Howl (or, at least, part of it) into Google's voice recognition software. It came out predictably garbled, and I put it on a bit of paper and performed it in front of my group.
I want to do more with it, though, and I think other people reading it - or other poems - into Google's voice recognition software would be an interesting start.
So, do hubskiers want to read either Howl or one of their favourite poems into Google's voice recognition software? (For conceptual purposes, it'll have to be Google's. I used my Nexus and the Google Drive app, but any android device would work, and presumably you can do it with Chrome somehow...)
If possible, it would also be fantastic if you could record yourself reading the software-garbled output, too.
Here's the original work.
Thanks!
Well, it's not formatted properly. It was really really fun though. Can I post it here? 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Awesome, thank you! Yeah, performing it for me was ridiculously breathless. I'm glad to see Google's censored words in yours, too, that's interesting.
This sounds really cool. It sort of reminds me of this experiment where a guy uploaded a video of himself to youtube, downloaded it, and then reuploaded it. I would be down to give it a shot when my computer is back in working condition. I don't think my work mates would approve of me reading Howl and then garbled Howl into my computer. :P
Oh, that's really interesting. It's fascinating to watch the original video, too. Art school really pounds the conceptual into you, and you end up analysing every single decision (or lack of decision) made in a potential work, so for the original video to be simply about the technique and medium is really interesting. Awesome, whenever works for you! I expect this to be continuing for the next few months at least; I want to see how many versions I can collect. I'm also looking at reading the garbled version back into Google and seeing what that produces, and possibly repeating that a few times.