User:Tash/Prototyping 01

Image from lip-sync animate project

Command lines & Raspberry Pis

• First time ever working with command lines, shell scripts and the Raspberry Pi.
• First bash script (using python scripts, ffmpeg, melt, spell and speak)
• Experiment with interaction in scripts

espeak -w audio.wav -p 70 "I am dead inside"

sox audio.wav audio2.wav speed 0.7

sox audio2.wav -b 8 -e unsigned-integer -c 1 -r 4000 -t raw rawfile

rm frame*.jpg

python lip-sync.py

ffmpeg -r 10 -i frame%09d.jpg -i audio2.wav -y mymovie1.mp4

espeak "Hi, What is your name?"
echo "What is your name?"
read content

espeak -z "Nice to meet you"
echo $content | espeak 

espeak  "What’s your favorite color?"
echo "What’s your favorite color"
read content

espeak -z "Oh my god. I love the color"
echo $content | espeak

• Better understanding of networks, servers & programming languages, setting up public websites on the Pi.
• How to use Git repositories.

Wiki-wiki

• Learnt how to use media-wiki as a writing and reading platform
• Opportunities & challenges in using Semantic Media wiki: how the use of metadata, properties, values and forms can be useful in creating meaning, but also limiting in other ways
• Wiki skinning with Manetta, my background in web design was helpful in this
• Pipelines that use wikis as a source / step / destination

Going forward

• Would love to push my technical skills in the next trimester. This means more coding, python, publishing on different servers, research on networks, but also experiments with hardware.
• Algorithmic curation & generative content is a growing interest for me
• Also: In a publication, where is the border between reader & writer? Wikis are all about collaborative content; they are also 'platforms with attitudes'. How does software influence behaviour? Politics of 'seamlessness'?
• In terms of book scanners > to control the rules and not the output
• References:
  • Eleven Orderings: Guttorm Guttormsgaard http://guttormsgaard.activearchives.org