Kotodama Fruit Juice (Stories that Listen)

“Speak with Purpose” is an applied research project created by team Kotodama Fruit Juice in association with the Entertainment Technology Center Professors Brenda Bakkar- Harger and Shirley Yee. Tasked with exploring “stories that listen”, the five technologists that make up Kotodama Fruit Juice are using advanced speech recognition and narrative trickery to discover what possibilities exist for the future of entertainment and natural modes of interaction. The ability to establish meaningful relationships and exchanges through one’s speech is a core tenant of the communicative experience, and current attempts to mimic the process synthetically are limited to practical, industrial spaces instead of our living rooms. Kotodama Fruit Juice is thinking outside the (juice) box to provide realistic, meaningful interaction and story, and all you’ll have to do is speak with purpose.