SPEAK WITH PURPOSE
Hello again from team KFJ! It’s coming down to the wire here at speech recognition headquarters as we push to finish our beta experience for soft presentations. We’ve recorded another new script that incorporates a ton of feedback that we received from our last playtest, and we tested it today to good effect. Our weekly…
Hello and welcome to another harrowing adventure from the team at Kotodama Fruit Juice! Since our heroes last left you, they were preparing to battle the mighty Halves Presentations armed with a lot of information and very little communicative ability — but a LOT of heart! — did they succeed? Well, yes. And no. More…
Hola from team Kotodama Fruit Juice and the Speak with Purpose project! It’s been an eventful week, with lots to update on, starting with a post-mortem of our 1/4s presentation and the decision of decisions: what are we building!? Seriously? 1/4s went better than expected and helped focus our team on the “Once Upon a…
Hello again from team Kotodama Fruit Juice! We’re hard at work preparing for our 1/4s presentation next Friday, and part of that is making firm decisions about the direction of the project and having a few avenues available for feedback during the review sessions. Our project has been initially difficult to explain and comprehend, so…
Hello again from Kotodama Fruit Juice! It’s been an extremely productive week at KFJ HQ (Kotodama Fruit Juice Headquarters). Heather and Dilara were able to talk with Peter Kinney further about our Kinect Wrapper plans, and after we were sufficiently warned away, we decided to scope back and use only the MSRE and a microphone…
Hello again from Kotodama Fruit Juice! It’s been a very insightful & productive week for us as we have been able to meet with an incredibly diverse group of researches in order to get a better idea of the current progress of speech recognition and where our project could be most impactful. Heather started out…
Howdy from team KOTODAMA FRUIT JUICE! Wait, what? Kotodama (言霊, lit. “word spirit/soul”) refers to the Japanese belief that mystical powers dwell in words and names. English translations include “soul of language”, “spirit of language”, “power of language”, “power word”, “magic word”, and “sacred sound”. The notion of kotodama presupposes that sounds can magically affect objects, and that ritual word usages…