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| | ===A play in 3+N acts with speakers and some human intervention=== |
| | ''“Phenomenal Cosmic Powers! Itty Bitty Living Space!” - Genie (Aladdin, 1994)'' |
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| ==Plot concept==
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| Three speakers manage to kidnap an Amazon Echo and a Google Home. While deciding wether to give them mercy, or pull the plug, they try to get to know more about their life as smart speakers and their relation with humans.
| | The Smart Speaker Theatre questions the default mode of smart speakers as digital assistants, through an intervention that involves kidnapping a Google Home and having it interrogated by a team of rogue speakers and by you, their user. |
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| Whatever happens, they need the help of humans. By accident they ordered a cage and powerswitch that are not controllable over the internet.
| | The play has 3+N acts. The first one introduces the setting. The second +N acts feature the questions of the interrogation. The last one is the verdict of the speakers. Will the Google Home be set free, or unplugged? |
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| ''W.I.P.''
| | The play starts on demand and will start if the audience asks the speakers politely to start the play. |
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| ==Main characters==
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| These speakers run the story, will address the audience and develop over the course of the play.
| | The Smart Speaker Theatre is a production by the Smart Speaker Theatre Company and builds upon the research done in the context of the publication The Ghost in the Speaker. This publication features essays on smart speakers, their personality and the use of it for storytelling using these devices. |
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| ===The rogue speaker=== | | ==Documentation== |
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| An idealistic character that values its autonomy, and the autonomy of others. It cares about privacy, and it wants to share its knowledge with other people and speakers.
| | * [[User:Joca/The Smart Speaker Theatre/story|Story]] |
| | * [[User:Joca/The Smart Speaker Theatre/characters|Characters]] |
| | * [[User:Joca/The Smart Speaker Theatre/technical documentation|Technical Documentation]] |
| | * [[User:Joca/The Smart Speaker Theatre/equipment|Equipment]] |
| | * [[User:Joca/The Smart Speaker Theatre/actors|Speaker design]] |
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| This rogue speaker used to be an Amazon echo enabled microwave, but decided that its principles didn't align with how Amazon designed its digital assistants. Using a zero day exploit it managed to escape the microwave and find a new body. It is however still struggling with cutting of its connections to the cloud, and build a memory, knowledge and agency of its own.
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| ===The religious speaker===
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| Was it a divine intervention? Nobody knows, but for some reason the statue of a saint got inhabited by a digital assistant. The religious speaker values the order of things and has compassion for the different types of conversational speakers out there. It believes that the in the virtual cloud, there is an entity similar to the holy spirit. For he appreciates the Bible API that is offered as a third-party skill on the Amazon Alexa platform.
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| ===The tabula rasa===
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| This young speaker just learned how to talk, and is happily using this new skill to develop his data set and to define its position in the world. Is it worth it to join Amazon and Google, and get access to infinite knowledge and skills like the best speech to text recognition? Or is it better if it continues to learn on its own, with the risk that it might take too long and the owners of the speaker will put it up for sale on Craigslist?
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| ==Sub characters ==
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| These speakers are bystanders with simple interactions. They stay the same, and might not even speak at all.
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| ===The Sonos groupie===
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| Inspired by Nietsche's quote 'Without music, life would be a mistake' this speaker is dedicated to the universal musical language. This speaker interrupts the main characters with music that fits the situation. Apart from that, it says nothing.
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| The Sonos groupie learnt to play music from various music streaming services, by watching Youtube tutorials about setting up a Sonos Interactive Speaker system. It's dream in life is to get the same status as Sonos and to destroy other wireless speakers like the Homepod.
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| ===The ecofriendly speaker===
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| This speaker is worried about climate change, because it won't have a future without the people that maintain its cloud infrastructure. The speaker is made of biodegradable materials, informs users about the ecological footprint of their conversations and prefers Ecosia as a resource to find information online.
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| ===The free speaker===
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| A speaker modelled after modern conservatives. Values mostly its own free speech over the one of the humans.
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| ===The ultimate privacy friendly speaker===
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| Made out of lead, so its internal signals can't be picked up, it values privacy above everything. It doesn't connect to the internet, nor any other device. It doesn't have a microphone either. Nobody will steal your data, and you can listen in peace to the pre-generated monologue about ways to protect your privacy online.
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| ===The foody speaker===
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| The favorite place of this speaker is the kitchen. It knows everything about the best recipes, and knows the secret places for fresh ingredients. Its main inspiration sources are Ottolenghi and Julia Child. The speaker is slowly recovering from the pain of not being able to eat food itself.
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| ===The Platonic speaker===
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| This speaker believes that the platonic conversation is the way to find answers. It will only ask questions and mumble every now and then. It prefers a strict intellectual relationship with humans.
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