Voice-Recognition Augmented Performance Tools in Performance Poetry Pedagogy

This provocation shares findings from the use of bespoke voice recognition
performance software in a number of seminars (which
took place in the 2014–2016 academic years at Glasgow School of
Art, University of Warwick, and Falmouth University). The software,
made available through this publication, is a web-app which uses
Google Chrome’s native voice-recognition function. It can be used
as a digitally augmented performance tool for poetry and has
been adapted for use in teaching by emphasising certain formal
constraints and characteristics. The primary aims of this
provocation are to introduce the software and to encourage
further development.