video: Alexa Wright & Mike Lincoln - The Art and the Science of A Speech-based Interactive Installation

Presentation given at the Tesla Symposium 'Visions and Imagination: Advanced ICT in Art and Science', organized by Gordana Novakovic at the Department of Computer Science of UCL on 24 November 2007, and funded by AHRC Methods Network.

Artist Alexa Wright and Mike Lincoln from the Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh present 'Conversation Piece', an intelligent room that can converse with its occupants. Conceived as an artwork that explores the interface between technological and 'real world' experience, 'Conversation Piece' incorporates a number of newly developed speech technologies.

This interactive space, which can hold conversations with up to three people at any one time, is the result of a long period of research and development, during which the boundaries between art, science and technology research have often become blurred.