Comments on: symposia ensoniment of Plato’s Symposium

By: wilhelminarandtke

wilhelminarandtke — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:39:18 +0000

Love it! Crowdsourcing to the right crowd. I also plan to be present the day you are doing this, so now very curious to check your session out with my trusty laptop at hand.

By: johnbork

johnbork — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:47:24 +0000

The current version of the software requires a GNU/Linux-based development environment (I’m using Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.11 on bare hardware and VirtualBox virtual machines–so you can use a Windows-based or Mac-based host) to compile and run the program to be one of the speakers (Apollodorus, Glaucon, companion, Aristodemus, Socrates, Agathon, Alicibiades). It will also be connecting to a MySQL database host over a wired or wireless network I will set up.

We are looking for interesting passages in the Symposium where there is a lot of interaction among the speakers to hear what it will sound like (hard not to say ‘see’ what it will sound like) in simultaneous Greek and English (and more languages if we have time in the workshop to add them) text-to-speech synthesized voices. I will update the main posting with more technical requirements in the next day or so. Thanks for your comment!

By: Mark H. Long

Mark H. Long — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:19:03 +0000

OK, consider me very intrigued. Just to be clear, I will need a laptop to participate in this, and not just my iPad — is that correct? I just want to make sure I bring the proper tool for this session.