Humanities Hackathon: Sound arguments with sonic eloquence

What are the sonic dimensions of persuasion, and how can we use computational machines to understand how sound operates rhetorically? In a project called “Sonic Eloquence,” Brown and Lee are examining the human voice in an attempt to understand how sound is deployed by orators and how musicality is inherent to the spoken word. They are using computation to both analyze and generate sound as they track how sonic eloquence operates within and alongside human attempts to persuade.