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| Type: || Algoliterary Work
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| Datasets: ||  The Weekly Address, videos on [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGknzyQfNiThyt4vg4MlTQ/search?query=weekly+address youtube]
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| Technique: || Markov Chain, PocketSphinx
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| Developed by: || Gijs de Heij
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''The Weekly Address, a Model for a Politician'' researches the role of language and image profiles in politics and their ability to influence our judgment.

The installation employs speech recognition and machine learning to analyse patterns in a politician's way of speaking. While machine learning recognises patterns and produces reliable and repeatable results based on a data set, politicians construct patterns through rhetoric, often repeating their message to convey their own truth.

The installation is based on a database which was generated by a speech recognition algorithm listening to Obama's Weekly Address. The recognised words were stored as text and analysed using a Markov Chain. There are two interfaces to this database, one showing repeated sentences or word combinations and the other allowing the generation of new speeches.