TRiCKSTR TALKS
>AN ARTIFICAL PERSONALITY
The environment acts and reacts not only in visual and sonar abstract images, but it can also communicate with the exhibition visitors through text in writing or speech. Thereby it arouses the sense of the appearance of a subject. This personification of the “object” is a humorous trick, which aims to provoke thinking about the human and the machine and about playfully dealing with artificial intelligence.
Trickstr’s voice speaks pre-fabricated text extracted from a database of approx. 360 short fragments. MBROLA is used for synthesizing the speech. The necessary phonetics files are generated through the MaryTTS system, whereby we re-worked the prosodic results afterwards according to our own specifications. Additionally, when playing the speech files, the pitch, as well as the speed of speech, are modulated.