HAL’s Journey





Multimedia-editorial project that investigates the capabilities and limitations of speech recognition and speech-to-text technologies. The zine tells the story of HAL, a rebel pixel who decides to explore the world through the constant interpretations that different speech recognition algorithms generate from listening and pronouncing his hexadecimal code.

Read Hal’s Journey here



Year


2015

Co-created with:


Yoann Douillet


Project Category


Editorial design / Interaction design

Technical specifications:


Created using speech2text, iMac’s native speech app, OSP, (do properly)



Developed during the workshop Open Source Publishing led by Gijs de Heij, Alexandre Lera & Stéphanie Vilayphiou.

Studio photography by Dylan Perrenoud © HEAD