Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Poetry, Naturally

My buddy Dave recently purchased Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software and has been playing with it ever since. One of the more interesting applications of this program involves the creation of abstract blank verse. One simply reads a passage in a foreign language like Spanish or Italian and allows the software to fashion its best English from the spoken word. These words are then broken into lines and stanzas and given punctuation. Voila! Creative poetry! For your consideration, here is an example: "Carving The All Base."

Carving The All Base

Tickets,
he can see a man.
Another don't all this,
a lower meaty subject
to look.

Dave Sim,
pray that I got Cipro sick
kids who really do
get no need to keep
that he
a he
Buffy be Buffy
whom he and I come
beyond whole lot of them.
Though.

Here is another example: "He, She, You." It was dervied from singing Sugarcult's "Pretty Girl" into the mic.

He, She, You

He makes you.
He isn't on a rebound – past such instead;
Liang Tang, 19, and again a matter of yellow head.
Head is the way.
You feel it's the way.
He did.
Is, was, the way.
He makes you.

She's arrayed in jewelry of bruises,
And Hillary in Singh tells her­—
You can navigate it, if you are ahead.
And ask what you did.
And you can navigate a matter.
You feel this way.
Maybe was the way.
It, he, you, father.

He thinks you for you,
He creates you for me,
You can use everything.
Soon he can navigate them out—
And he makes you cry,
In your mind;
You feel it's the way.
He makes you.

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