within the context of Digital Primer project, we work a lot with speech recognition and speech synthesis

currently we have two voices: HJK (male, english with korean accent); DO (female, german)

we use open-source coqui text-to-speech (TTS) to generate voices

Named after a Czech author (and a skilled Gardener) who, 103 years ago, coined the word "Robot" (🤖) in his theatre piece "Rossum's Universal Robots", Karel v0.0.2 is a 🤖 which

waits in certain matrix rooms (e.g. #AI-UdK:m3x.baumhaus.digital) for messages having a form "!txt2img SOMETHING"

he passes SOMETHING to udk.ai's instance of Stable Diffusion through Automatic1111 API

posts the generated image back in the matrix room

injects corresponding "knowledge unit" into udk.ai's knowledge graph

project acronym proposal for UdK's AI-Förderung (BMBF, 200 x 2 mega-EUR) application (2021)

domain which I acquired for the purpose of the project

project was renamed to KKIKI and failed to get funding ...

... domain remained and is now pointing to the machine with Nvidia GPU running in GRU 313

UDK.AI is ...

public collaborative cache of AI-generated content / OERs

zero-funded Baustelle & Temporary Autonomous Zone