This idea came to me as I was transcribing one of my eructations
for
the Eructative Naming Convention halfbakery idea, in which I
write
down my eructations in text, ie: oo-WELL-ay-ALL-ah-MOM-en-ique.
I am getting pretty good at transcribing them, and even
developing
a
pretty say-it-like-it-sounds
way of writing them out, and I am
building an interpretive capability, so that I can quickly translate
the
burp into something easily sayable.
For the spelling, when I first started writing them out, I would
look
back a day later and not be able to remember what sound I was
trying to get at, so I gradually worked out a way of spelling the
burps
so that they are easy to recreate -- a way of spelling syllables so
that
there is no contextual or conventional pronunciation, just the raw
deal.
As I was doing this I happened to fart, and it occurred to me that
if i
really stretched it I could have written down the "pronunciation"
of
the fart too, and even that a software program could be written
to
translate a fart, or any sound at all into this non-conventional,
non-
contextual spelling system.
So with this software you could record a sound, optimize it for
transcription, transcribe it into the spelling system, and then have
a
text to speech voice read it out.
This would be fun to keep on at all times, like on Google Glass, so
that if someone did inadvertently fart, the system would be able
to
pronounce it exactly, perhaps thereby giving more expression to
our
other ends, increasing everyone's emotional intelligence, and at
least providing much amusement.
I also just saw a Facebook post of a system that plays a tree stump
like a record player, which is interesting, but the implementation
just translates the record needle on the stump groves into really
ominous but information-poor piano music with only about
4different
notes from what it sounded like. It sounded like the system had
taken out too much information. I don't know at what resolution
it
was working so maybe that was the best they could do, but it
made
me wonder if the information in the tree stump groves could have
been translated into pronounceable text, I mean as long as you
are
going to process the information you might as well put it in a
format
to which we are accustomed to focusing our logic-seeking
modules.