In March, 2022, I recorded a series of performative experiments with my friends Yiran and Stephen. This project is part of the series Lost and Found, an exploration of how language deteriorates under multiple layers of technological mediation.
Below are links to the text generated in the experiments through Speech Recognition and Google Translate.
Carrie
01: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
02: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
03: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
04: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
05: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
06: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
07: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
08: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
09: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
10: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
Stephen
01: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
02: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
03: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
04: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
05: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
06: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
07: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
08: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
09: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
Yiran
01: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
02: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
03: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
04: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
05: Chinese, Mandarin to English (United States)
06: English (United States) to Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)