Artificiallly intelligent

So the computers talked!

This is an experiment parallel to the lamp project that plays with the idea of conversational interaction between people and daily objects. Iterations were made to test varies forms of expression a computer can take. In this case I tried to distribute some donuts to the computers and asked about their preferences. The computers were programed as such that the first talks through language, the second graphical forms and the third digitally synthesized human speech.

The robotic lamp

Just finished testing a hobby project I’ve been working during the summer, a robotic lamp that responds to human speech. Below is the first prototype(lacking of a shade that can withstand its hilarious act).

Early this summer I went to a workshop by Joseph Tepperman about automatic speech recognition and am using a processing library called VOCE which is based on the speech recognition model Sphinx.

The current interaction between me and the lamp still seems more like a commander- receiver relationship and am not very satisfied with the servantal behavior of the lamp. I’d like to see the lamp blend in the domestic environment with a strange identity: an animated furniture, an observer of human condition and a sincere listener to every conversations happening in the space.