August 2018: Second speaker and new sponsor announced.
There’s just over a month until the next Kernow DAT event lands at Heartlands, Pool. On the 20th September we’ll be welcoming around 80 people to the world heritage site for an evening of performance, talks, and conversation.
Our second speaker of the evening is Tony Edwards from Software Cornwall. He’ll be presenting ‘Beats, Rhymes & Unit Tests’, a look into the web browser speech recognition service and how it helps him to write hip-hop lyrics. This will be the last chance to catch this highly engaging talk in the South West before he tours the talk around the UK at meetups and conferences.
We’re super excited to welcome a new sponsor into the Kernow DAT family. Radix Communications, a B2B copywriting agency based in Penryn, are helping make our events happen and enabling us to offer free tickets to the community. Keep on reading to find out more.
Tickets are strictly limited for this Kernow DAT outing and over half have already gone. Get yours today and make sure you don’t miss out on the Flat Packed Theatre performance, Tony’s musical talk (details below) plus other digital curiosities.
A limited number of tickets are still available. Get yours today via Helm Tickets.
Speech recognition is all around us. From the smartphones in our pockets to the devices at the heart of our digital homes, we’re never far from speech recognition technology. Not only does it enable new ways of interacting with computers, it’s also set to reshape Human-Computer Interaction for people requiring assistive technologies.
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The humble web browser is no exception. The speechRecognitionAPI enables developers to incorporate advanced speech interactions into today’s web applications. But is it any good? Combining two of his passions, Tony sets out to discover if the speechRecognitionAPI can be used as an aid in transcribing hip-hop lyrics during the writing process.
After an introduction to the broader technology, a mix of audio, video and live performance tells the tale of creating an MVP transcription application to aid in the writing of new songs. As a development project, each iteration of the app is accompanied by a set of unit tests. The final unit test is executed live, resulting in a crescendo you won’t want to miss.
Tony Edwards is a one half of Future Sync Events, a tech focused event startup based in the South West. Tony also works for Software Cornwall, a network of digital businesses in the county, where he helps inspire the next generation of budding developers to follow their digital dreams and enter the broader software industry.
Radix is a copywriting agency for the content marketing era. Radix works with in-house and agency-side marketers across the B2B technology industries to develop content and campaigns that guide customers through long, complex buying cycles. See some of the projects they’ve worked on.
Their ten in-house writers are skilled across a huge range of formats, from tweets and Facebook posts to blogs, video scripts, white papers, ebooks, infographics, memes and comic strips. And because Radix only write for clients in the B2B tech sector, you can be sure they either already understand your market and products, or can get to grips with them very quickly.
Radix are no strangers to the Kernow DAT stage. Head over to our YouTube channel to watch David’s talk and take a look at radix-communications.com to find out more about the team.
