Have a listen to my speculative futures to find out why audio books have surpassed text-based books in relevance and how algorithms are being applied to spirituality. 

A bit about my approach to this assignment.  

I wanted to express this assignment as audio and initially I thought of recording a podcast. I then decided that rather than just speaking about my speculative futures that I’d utilize the immersive reader (text to speech) function in Microsoft Word.  I typed my two speculative futures in Word and then had the immersive reader read the text out load. This turned the text-based content into an auditory experience and I really liked the sound of the detached electronic voice forecasting the future, as it gave the utopian promises a dystopian undertone. The next challenge was outputting the audio. There wasn’t a way in Word to export or save an audio file, so I moved the text over to Google docs, as there was an add-in that could be used to create an audio file. My issue with the Google docs add-inn was that I much preferred the sound of the Word electronic voice. In the end, I connected my PC with Word to my Mac Laptop’s line-in with an audio cable and recorded the speech in GarageBand and then outputted an mp4.