Turbulence Spotlight

Voice Mosaic–Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel–is a web-art application that converges speech and image, building a visual mosaic on the web with the chosen colors and recorded voices of people who interact with it from any place around the globe. The voice interface, developed with open-standards in speech synthesis and voice recognition technologies, works through phone calls from any telephone.

Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel is Director of Technology at NMD Internet & Multimedia, Ltd. – developers of several successful websites in Brazil, like HBO’s, Sony’s, and Warner Bros’ television channels and Monica’s Gang – winner of 9 Internet Best Awards in Brazil since 1998. She is Professor of ‘New Technologies’ and ‘Marketing’ at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi; International technical advisor in US for AllHealthNet.com; and a frequent speaker at Internet conferences in Brazil and the US. Engineer, postgraduate in Marketing and Graphics Design, she is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Multimedia at ECA/USP, focusing on man/machine interfaces.

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