«Máquina de Ouver» — Representação do Discurso Oral pela Tipografia
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Abstract
Typography is considered by many authors to be the visual representation of language and, through writing, the human being has found a way to record and share information. Throughout the history of typography, many authors have explored the link between the word and its sound, trying to approximate what is said with what one hears and how one reads.We present the «Máquina de Ouver», a system that analyzes speech recordings and creates a visual representation for their expressiveness, using composition and typographic variables.
This system takes advantage of the scripting capabilities of Praat, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe After Effects to gather data on the sound features of speech recordings and dynamically create a typographic composition that results in a static or dynamic artifact, such as a poster or video.
As one of the most dynamic and richly expressive forms of speech, experimentation material focuses mainly on interpretations of poetry.