The Bitspeech Sonnets

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I had to drop my original concept, as it was a bit too involved for the limited time I had available this month. Later on, I came up with a smaller, less ambitious, more absurd project which I will try to put together before the end of November.

The concept of ‘bitspeech’ or ‘bitspeak’ is to use 16 slot lookup tables of consonants and vowels to map the bits from an integer represented as base 16 hex values into words that can be spoken out loud.

Taking this a step further, we can use a whole lot of sequential and random numbers to generate a lexicon, then scan the index for rhyming pairs and matching syllable counts to fill in the lines and make weird uncanny valley poetry.

Which leads to the book of bitspeech sonnets. I have no idea how this is going to turn out, but I’ll give it a go.

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Here’s the first completed poem:

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Repo & further Info

https://github.com/maetl/bitspeech-sonnets

Generated book example

book-1575119250.pdf

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Some examples of what the poems look like.

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Downloadable Books

I uploaded a bundle of 32 generated books to itch.io.

Making Of

I also posted notes on how the project was made.