SPEAK WITH PURPOSE
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…