Donna Miller Watts

Redaction Poetics

Your real friends what you really mean--Redaction Transformer helps frustrate eavesdropping by randomly censoring your conversations and inserting random rhymed words in their place.

Classes
Poetry Everywhere


This is a small installation. Redaction Transformer will take audio of conversations, via Google Speech to text Chrome extension (Javascript-based) and transform this audio input into text. The text then gets processed into rhymes via the RiTa processing.js library. Then, because the RiTa processing.js library does not have a text to speech capability, and I have not, as of this writing, been able to connect Google Text to speech with the text result I've gotten through RiTa, I am currently using eSpeak to transform the text back into speech. As such, I may also employ the mBrola voice library to improve the voice intelligibility. The result of this fancy footwork should be some weird, funny, and hopefully, interesting "poems."

Background
spring 2013 project--