I Like to Meet Cool People

"I" taken from the song "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis

"Like" taken from the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats

"To" taken from the song "Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton

"Meet" taken from the song "I'll Meet You at Midnight" by Smokie

"Cool" taken from the song "Smooth" by Santana

"People" taken form the song "People are People" by Depeche Mode

[Dror Gill]

As an avid music lover, everytime someone says a word, phrase or full sentence, it always reminds me of a song that immediately starts playing in my head.

So I thought of automating this process as a project for MuseNet: Create software that takes a phrase of text, and constructs it from song pieces.  The user types in a phrase or a sentence, and the software builds this sentence from short audio pieces (words) which are cut from songs, and plays the result.  The software would also supply some information about the songs used to build the sentence.

For example, if the user types the sentence:

I like to meet cool people

The software would play this sentence from audio pieces (words) taken from songs, and would display the following information:

I Like to Meet Cool People

"I" taken from the song "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis

"Like" taken from the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats

"To" taken from the song "Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton

"Meet" taken from the song "I'll Meet You at Midnight" by Smokie

"Cool" taken from the song "Smooth" by Santana

"People" taken form the song "People are People" by Depeche Mode

If the software can't find a certain word in its database, it would play it out using a speech synthesizer (text to speech).

Eliram volunteered to write the software, and also pointed me to an existing website that already does this.  But we will do it even better - both in Hebrew and in English.

I started to prepare short audio files in

format, where the name of the file will be the same as the word contained in the file (for example meet.

).  Since the quality of the project will improve as we have more words, we are looking for volunteers to help in creating the word files.  You can use any audio software, such as Audacity or Goldwave.  If you are willing to help, please send me email to my gmail which is drorgill.  We will also record people singing some words at MuseNet, and add them to the database on the spot.

[Eliram Haklai]

This was a great idea by Dror, but as often happens with great ideas, someone already created some version of it. So we decided to further develop the idea and aside from adding support to Hebrew (or any other language, just add the right samples) I've added some game elements and the ability to play with the words rather than just play them. They interact with the player and multiply accordingly.