Intellistener

Intellistener is a Master of Arts media design project in creating a toolset for linear annotation of audio in the aim for a first step of a artificial intelligent conversation partner. Read more ...

News

• MA Grad Show has opened!
  (June 24th 2005). And with these festivities, the latest public beta version of the Intellistener software is available: version 0.85b!
  Intellistener 0.85b features playback and editing capabilities and comes with two Annotation types: the TypedLinks and TextNotes annotations. Download it from the Resouces section on this page.
  Visit the PietZwart site for more information on the show
• Workshop series!
  You can still sign up for the workshops during the final show (fri, sat & sun 24th, 25th & 26th of June in Rotterdam). Read more about the Workshops (in Dutch)

Documents

• Read the original workplan version 1.01 (PDF 426kb)
• Module overview Diagram (PDF 56kb) shows the different files and modules
• Current Class Diagram UML (PDF 19kb) gives an overview of the current (DemoWithAudio) classes and their connections

Screenshots

Resources

• Latest Public Beta version 0.85 Needs OSX 10.3. (24th June, Build 0.85b). Official MA grad show version
• Waag Workshop version Needs OSX 10.3. (10th June, Build 0.84b). No documentation
• Old Public Beta version Needs OSX 10.3. (29th May, Build 0.73b). Sparse documentation and audio available at www.hyperaudio.org.
• 2nd Group critique version Needs OSX 10.3. (25th May, Build 0.70b). Yet without readme/docs.
• First binary Demo application (Doesn't play sound, Mac OS X Disk Image, 95kb)
• Smaller modular test projects
• DemoWithAudio.app (early tarball. first with audio, Xcode project .tgz 90kb) This version is dependent on some big audio files. Read the README first!
• BranchedViewTest.app tarball (Plays no audio, Xcode project .tgz 79kb)
• MostSimpleTestMixer.app tarball (two file mixer, Xcode project .tgz 38kb) The mixer uses the QTSoundFilePlayer by Kurt Revis, adapted by Kevin Boyce. To run it change the audio file names in AppController.m's -awakeFromNib:

Spoken project updates

• Progress Report January 2005, WAV 35min (32MB)
• Progress Report February 2005, WAV 33min (30MB)
• Progress Report March 2005 New Style, WAV 26min (23MB) Tim van der Maas interviews Dirk van Oosterbosch about the project

Korte samenvatting / Short introduction

Intellistener is een experiment om te onderzoeken hoe het medium radio door "re-mediation" (het omzetten van het ene medium in het andere) nieuwe mogelijkheden kan opleveren voor maker en luisteraar. Het gaat hier om gesproken radio: gesprekken, verhalen, interviews. Het eerste onderdeel van dat onderzoek zal zijn een computer programma te maken waarmee audio lineair geannoteerd kan worden. Dat wil zeggen dat er op de tijdslijn op specifieke plaatsen aantekeningen kunnen worden aangebracht. Vervolgens moet het dan mogelijk worden om een audio archief op basis van deze aantekeningen te doorzoeken. Uiteindelijk zal de computer zelf -hopelijk zinnige- combinaties van deze audio fragmenten kunnen maken.

Intellistener is an experiment in the remediation of radio. Specifically spoken radio: conversations, narratives, interviews. It is set up to investigate the result of recasting this medium and see what new possibilities this brings for both the maker and the listener. The first goal of this research is to develop an application to linearly annotate audio, i.e. to add remarks and comments at specific points in the timeline. Next an audio archive would have to be made accessible and searchable on the basis of these annotations. Eventually the computer will be able to generate -hopefully meaningful- compositions from these audio fragments.