My project proposal was about the intervention of data practices from Google, Facebook, Amazon... into our communication systems and all the human labor happening behind it. I made an annotated diagram that explains that. So for example, the
I wanted to highlight the human involvement into the training of speech recognition software on which Alexa, Siri and other are based on. And the importance of voice as a unique element of our bodies that is collected for training an AI machine. My aim was to make experiments with other people in group sessions were we discuss about our privacy and at the same time the discussion becomes input for a process of activities related to transcribing, listening, eavesdropping, speaking, recording. They would immitate the processes of the speech recognition tools.
Also how it is used as a tool for verifying claims of origin of refugees
My project proposal was about the intervention of data practices from Google, Facebook, Amazon... into our communication systems and all the human labor happening behind it. I made an annotated diagram that explains that from my perspective. So for example,....(explain one route with listening and transcribing)
I wanted to highlight the human involvement into the training of speech recognition software on which Alexa, Siri and other are based on. And the importance of voice as a unique element of our bodies that is collected into a big pool of trained data. My aim was to make experiments with other people in group sessions where we would discuss about our privacy and at the same time the discussion would become input for a process of activities. Like transcribing, listening, eavesdropping, speaking, recording, repeating. They would immitate the processes of the training of speech recognition tools. Here is a diagram made by somebody else that explains further the exploitation of user's speech data and the free labor for the Amazon echo.
**ai-anatomy-map.pdf**
I organised the workshop pyratechnic with the first years and wanted to realize these actions in a loop
So the conversation leakes out to the other room and it is repeted, transcribed and coming back distorted.
Besides their commercial use these tools are also used by the states to control citizens or the access of refugees in the country. For example Germany wants to use speech analysis tools to verify the claims of origin of refugees. So they collect their voice data through interviews and if the tool finds out that their dialect is not related to their claims of origin then they are banned by asking asylum.
My purpose is to strengthen our awareness for our involvement in the loop and answer in some questions that bother me. Some of these questions is how our bodies are influenced by these systems, what is the control over them, what are the new relation with our voices and how can we appropriate these new technologies more consciously, what new material and tools these experiments produce? It seems to me that the communication platforms are estranged[3] realities where the personal body [cultural, physical, political, gender] disappears realities difficult to understand.
##Workshop
**pyratechnic3_workshop.pdf**
I organised a workshop, part of the pyratechnic sessions, with the first years. I wanted to immitate a loop in which a conversation of two people leakes out to another room, through Jitsi, where participants repeat, transcribe and then read the transcription back to them. So their words come back distorted. Explaining the second diagram.
##My research turn- voice in public- looking at a specific example:
Angeliki
6 years ago