Jamie Brew
Jamie Brew is a writer based in Brooklyn. He is a contributor at The Onion, was the first head writer of ClickHole and created Botnik. He co-hosts Robot Karaoke, a live comedy show where participants sing all-new all-wrong words to karaoke songs.
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Session
Robot Karaoke is a live comedy show that swaps lyrics with fragments of text drawn from a catalog of esoteric datasets (quora questions, web banner ads, tax forms, and more) to create and sing never-before-sung karaoke songs. This talk covers how the data is sourced, how the songs are phonetically annotated, and how the show is run and the core software (the Weird Algorithm) developed. The presentation will end with a demo of the future of karaoke.