LexiBot

LexiBot Stuff

Blair and Ge

Links/References

• http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~blairbo/220a/finalproject.html
  • awesomeness

• WordNet: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
  • more awesomeness, but we don't know exactly what to do with it yet
  • semantic lexicon

• http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
  • random CS paper generator
  • hand-written CFG

• http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
  • refreshing this page gives you a new pomo paper each time!
  • possibly related to this: http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/

• http://sentence.bigparadox.com/
  • set sentence structure and vocabulary
  • "profiles"

• Fun with Randomly-Generated Sentence: http://www.manythings.org/rs/
  • more grammatically based

• Hyperscore, cool musical generator interface: http://www.media.mit.edu/hyperins/projects/hyperscore.html

Modules (Editable or Selectable Features)

Lyrics

• Program chooses everything to do with lyrics (do nothing)

• Subject area by keyword
  • Keyword entry
    • Use something like WordNet to determine associated words
  • Keyword selection (from available keyword areas)
    • Could use an interface like this: http://sentence.bigparadox.com/
    • The chosen word from each field actually maps to a keyword set
  • General theme selection

• Sentence/String structure
  • Input a sentence given the vocabulary, which will then be mimicked
  • Choose a sentence type

• Overall narrative structure
  • Telling a story
  • Verse/chorus structure
  • Other types of lyrics (repetitive, nonsensical)

• Write own set of grammar rules with new vocabulary

Issues

• Generating syllable recordings for new words
• Ensuring that program's word-selection criteria match those intended by user
• RHYMING

Music (Genre and Instrumentation)

• Program chooses all music

• Choose music genre and instrumentation
  • Choose genre (ex. techno)
  • Choose band (profile) whose style you'd like to emulate (ex. Daft Punk, Elliott Smith)

• Choose instrumentation, determine own harmonies/accompinament
  • Preset harmonic progression
  • Play accompinament on ascii keyboard, deciding chord progression as you go

• Create own instrumentations using ChucK, do own keyboard mappings

Music (Melody)

• Program chooses melody

• Preset melodic types (dependent on harmonies?)

• Creating one's own melodies
  • Preset the melody
  • Play the melody on the ascii keyboard

Issues

• Matching a played melody to the number of (randomly generated) syllables
• Matching a generated melody to syllable count
• Matching the melody to the harmonic structure

The Synthesized Voice

• Currently using doctalk.
  • http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jeffcoop/sound/doctalk.zip
  • Can set voice, frequency, inflection
    • 220a proj used robotoid at 110Hz, flat intonation, for example

Pitch Shifting

• Currently changing pitch by changing sample rate by ratio of desired pitch/given pitch
  • Only works within small range