See the speech recognition trending engine created by James Théophane

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31 May 2012
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Prepared to be stopped in your tracks because this is off the hook. James Théophane has just uploaded these incredible videos of a project he did on behalf of Clemenger BBDO Sydney for the city’s recent TEDX event. By rigging the auditorium with microphones he created Mimeisthai, a generative speech recognition trending engine.During the breaks it captured snippets of conversation and fed them into a data visualisation machine which measured differentials like tone, location and intensity, creating an interactive sound cloud that reflects the topics and ideas gaining momentum in the space. Is this a brave new era for social media, saving people the trouble of toiling over 140 characters? Maybe, maybe not but either way it’s fascinating, ambitious and undeniably beautiful. I would suggest watching the making of below before the main event above and there’s some more detail over on James’ blog.

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Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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