Six speaking chairs is a research project that explores radical interactions with tone-of-voice in synthesized speech. Each chair is based on on a different way of thinking about tone of voice, from phoneticians' intonation diagrams to George Bernard Shaw's instructions to his actors in pygmalion...

More generally, this project (and my accompanying thesis) is an exploration of how interactions with the material world can be translated into digital outputs in delightful, beautiful, expressive ways.