About Breakup Aid If you are reading this, you probably might have gone through a horrible break up in your life, or not. It doesn't matter, what matters most is that this voice application designed for google home would help you or any of your friends or family who are going through the struggles of a break up, recover from them and feel better than they were before. BreakUp Aid was created with the intention to be a substitute for a listening ear when you need immediate att

Reading Thoughts Anatomy of An AI System It is easy for us to forget where most of our resources came from. The food that we eat has layers of processes before we consume them. The clothes that we wear has gone through different labor before our skin touches them. Every item that we can imagine has a convoluted chain; one that have to go through different links to produce. I feel disturbed by Crawford & Joler article. Not because I disagree with their writing, but because I a

Readings Hello Sandra. Is Sandra like siri or google home? It is interesting to listen to this Podcast, they allowed me to imagine how it would be like to 'live' in the life of Siri/Google Home in a very human like environment. Sandra 'Hope is a Mistake' has an intriguing start to the Podcast, for a brief moment, it made me question the reality of this possibility for our smart devices, using humans to answer all our questions. This some what reminded me of a certain time in

Extract from Live Example The Beginning I was very intrigued by the examples that was given during class. I have played quite a number of games that required speech recognition and most of which are really interesting. I was thinking of what would be great to create for this assignment, and I I remembered i frequent a rhyme website when I was in high school because I enjoy writing short poetry and finding words that rhyme was one of the process for me while writing. RhymeZone

For this weeks assignment, I wanted to try out using an element and allow it to function and speak over an action (for example a mouseover). Initially I wanted to use the gif presented above, however, due to limited time, I decided to just use an image instead. The function of the code itself is rather straight forward, I used a onmouseover in Javascript and call for a sound synthesis when the mouse is over the image. For the code depository on GitHub, click here Link here fo