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Data-over-music: How do data-over-sound protocols like “Gibberlink” work?
A couple of days ago, I came across a video of two AIs communicating over the “Gibberlink” protocol. Many media outlets (mostly tabloids) and social media discussions framed this as the “end” of humanity’s understanding of AI, claiming that the AIs had developed a more complex and efficient communication system than our “traditional” linguistic systems.…
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Something about audio coding formats: A weird experiment idea
I’m a geek when it comes to audio—linguistically and otherwise. I love the gear, the science, and the experience. Most of my audio science experience comes from recording and listening to music, vinyls, and iPods, then hoarding lossless albums. Naturally, I also consume a lot of content about audio science and tech. Recently, I stumbled…
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Praanscribe
Praanscribe is an open-source Pyhton application developed with the aim of automizing the process of segmenting parts of speech as much as possible using Praat. Purpose, theoretical & conceptual background Automatic Speech Recognition & Segmentation Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and segmentation systems and technologies play a central role in contemporary phonetic and phonological research. ASR…
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Assessing toki pona: Does it fulfill the criteria of a human language?
toki pona (never capitalized) is a constructed language created by linguist and translator Sonja Lang, officially established in 2014 with the publishing of the book Toki Pona: The Language of Good. It is a constructed language designed in a very minimalistic manner, having only 120 to 137 words and a very simple grammar. Yet, it…
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Mychaela: Somebody that I used to know
Back in 2018, I used to spend a lot of time on a particular website: penpalworld.com — A website that lets you meet new people online in an old-fashioned pen-pal manner. On the website, users could create profiles with one profile picture, and you could message other users if you pleased. At the time, you…