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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)''


== Equipment ==
* Focusrite Scarlett usb soundcard or equivalent / XPUB
* (small) computer running Debian on amd64 (Mac Pro dustbin?) / XPUB
* Wifi router (for Google Home mini)
* Powerplug
* Powercord extender with extra plugs
* Theatre lights - small spot
* Google Home mini / JOCA
* The other smart speakers / JOCA
* backdrop / stage elements / JOCA
* RCA to mini-jack cables or whatever connection my speakers use / JOCA


== Documentation of software ==
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.
''WIP''


* [[user:Joca/Snips on debian (64 bits)]]
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?
* https://git.xpub.nl/jocavdh/smart_speaker_theatre_frontend
* https://git.xpub.nl/jocavdh/smart_speaker_theatre_backend


==Plot concept==
The play starts on demand and will start if the audience asks the speakers politely to start the play.


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.


Whatever happens, they need the help of humans. By accident they ordered a cage and powerswitch that are not controllable over the internet.
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.


''W.I.P.''
==Documentation==


==Acting speakers==
* [[User:Joca/The Smart Speaker Theatre/story|Story]]
 
* [[User:Joca/The Smart Speaker Theatre/characters|Characters]]
These speakers run the story, will address the audience and develop over the course of the play.
* [[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]]
* [[User:Joca/The Smart Speaker Theatre/actors|Speaker design]]
 
===The rogue speaker===
 
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.
 
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.
 
===The religious speaker===
 
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.
 
===The tabula rasa===
 
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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Latest revision as of 13:19, 10 June 2019

A play in 3+N acts with speakers and some human intervention

“Phenomenal Cosmic Powers! Itty Bitty Living Space!” - Genie (Aladdin, 1994)


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.

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?

The play starts on demand and will start if the audience asks the speakers politely to start 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.

Documentation


Play 01.jpg
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