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Hear it Here – and a Podcast?

Audio Assignment 416 Hear it Here

I wrote a very short little story that uses homophones. The words sound like other words, but can you tell what they mean without seeing the spelling? enjoy the recording.

I used a new microphone attached to headphones to do this recording. I think it is a little scratchy sounding. I need to work on making it clearer. Until this week I hadn’t made a voice recording before on a computer. When I was a child, I had a talk girl it was the pink version of a talk boy as seen in Home Alone 2 lost in New York. I spent a summer playing with that. So since then, I have not recorded myself on purpose really.

While I was considering using a computer voice generator for this assignment, I came across a web page that turns information into a pod cast script. You can then take the script and have it read in a style. I took the short story I wrote and gave it a pod cast theme that I thought would be in line with my character Lady Alice. I found it very amusing how much it read into a story I wrote in less than 20 mins.

https://app.wondercraft.ai/e/02yGvY4b

I really feel like it captures Lady Alice. I think the podcast does a good job of connecting the assignment to my character and shows more of how I envision her to be.

Radio Show Ideas

I would like to have a radio show with Dr Ravioli, Marie E. Pearl, and Lady Alice Smythe. They can discuss mopeds, world domination, and why a cat would marry a lobster. Marie can be trying to pet Ravioli constantly and being neutral on all topics. Alice and Ravioli can argue about mopeds. Alice insisting, they are terrible and Ravioli singing their praises. Marie can just keep agreeing with both points of view. Alice can try to constantly to one up the cat while Dr Ravioli ignores her because he is a cat. Marie can lecture about being nice and then sort of fade into the background. Ravioli can throw his life experiences into the mix to prove what point he is making since he is the oldest. We could throw in a conversation about AI and weather that would improve mopeds or not.

Another Idea for a radio show would be Dr. Ravioli talking to any of the robot characters trying to convince them to be turned into a moped.

All the AI enthusiasts do a radio show to raise money for the cause. I noticed there are several AI developers on the characters list and a televangelist. They could do a recruitment show.

Lady Alice E Smythe

This is a fictional character and similarities to real people are accidental.

Lady Alice E. Smythe

Mad genius – feels entitled to rule the world by virtue of intellectual superiority

E is for Edwina

She lives off a trust fund old family money.

Birth place some off the grid ranch in America probably Wyoming

Birth date March 25th, 2000

5ft 9in, slim, ginger hair, no freckles, can tan, green eyes, muscular but not overly fit, still looks young for age.

Lady Alice’s father is a lord from Scotland somewhere she never cared to remember much about that. Her mother is the daughter of a successful rancher in Wyoming. Her father was an avid adventurer that was too old for her mother. The marriage didn’t last long due his untimely death from doing something he shouldn’t while in his 60’s. Alice’s mother raised her mostly on her grandfather’s ranch in Wyoming. Alice is quite smart and flipped between privet tutors, boarding school and the nearest public school. Alice was too smart for her own good, often getting suspended and expelled from school. She had little respect for her teachers that she felt were not on her intellectual level. Alice was mostly a loner at school, finding her peers too stupid for words. When Alice could be bothered to do school assignments she always excelled. Alice attended several different Universities but never graduated. She only got in due to her mother donating enough money quietly to build new buildings. She firmly believes the human population to be as beneath her as rodents are to a cat. She spends her time reading, researching new ideas, riding horses, fencing, rock climbing, and whatever new hobbies perk her interest. She is not afraid of dirt but likes to dress well. She believes being a woman is an advantage that she will exploit.

Favorite food mashed potatoes

Favorite drink whisky neat

Color pale pink

Favorite book: The Ballad of Hua Mulan the original not translated.

Favorite movie Timeline

Favorite possession a simple silver ring with small flowers and a stone of obsidian. She found it in a field in Wyoming when she was small, and the ring was too big for her fingers. It now fits comfortably on her middle finger.

Personal motto nothing is impossible and the weak are stupid.

Meet the Innovator – Xander Neoteric

Meet Xander Neoteric. Xander was born on December 25th, 1995 and raised in San Francisco, California to Hannah Neoteric and Thomas Neoteric. From a young age, Xander was always in love with the field of technology, thanks to his father’s devotion to creating and transforming the world of technology. Unfortunately, his dad was never able to accomplish his dreams. Xander’s father always saw something in his son that no one else did, he was always wanting to learn more and experiment with his various ideas that were always rushing through his head. Xander is a big man, standing at a tall 6-feet 6-inches, and weighing in at about 250 pounds, Xander is not your ordinary techno person.

Xander currently lives his life single without any care for the world about having or being in a relationship due to the fact that he is always occupied with his work and his own mind. He is trying to innovate and change the world of technology while living up to the legacy his father left behind. After graduating from MIT as his class’s valedictorian, Xander was on a mission to hit his first big milestone of his career and started his own technology company Xander Technologies. He company took off quicker than it even started after he invented a new way to perform difficult surgeries by having an AI bot built into the surgery table that gave in-depth x-rays to the surgeon so that he could carefully carry out highly difficult surgeries. Xander has a lot more to show for him and this is only the beginning of his legacy-starting story. Xander is also a little self-absorbed due to the fact that in an interview, he once said that his favorite possession was his mind. I am sure that we will see and hear a lot more of Xander in the future.