{"id":26,"date":"2026-02-21T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:21:37","slug":"turing-speech-editions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/turing-editions\/turing-speech-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Turing speech editions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first phase of the Turing Speech Editions is found in <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\">HackaCon<\/a>, our conversational hackathon exploring the state of the art in creating AI-generated conversation. Like most of our projects, the question behind HackaCon is simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Can we use AI to convincingly synthesise a natural, spontaneous-sounding human conversation between two specific speakers?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to know more about it, have a read of our <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/\">HackaCon<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/files\/2026\/07\/bontse_01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-221\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/files\/2026\/07\/bontse_01-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/files\/2026\/07\/bontse_01-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/files\/2026\/07\/bontse_01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/files\/2026\/07\/bontse_01-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/files\/2026\/07\/bontse_01-676x451.png 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/files\/2026\/07\/bontse_01.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first phase of the Turing Speech Editions is found in HackaCon, our conversational hackathon exploring the state of the art in creating AI-generated conversation. Like most of our projects, the question behind HackaCon is simple: Can we use AI to convincingly synthesise a natural, spontaneous-sounding human conversation between two specific speakers? If you want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":221,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/226"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/botornot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}