The Idea:
We wish to answer a simple question:  what do words sounds like?  Not the pronunciation, like when we ask for what a word looks like, we don’t say it looks like some scribbles on a piece of paper.  For example, we ask, “What does an airplane look like”?  One could respond, “It is a big, metal tube with large fins placed symmetrically around the object”.  Now, we as what does it sound like?  We could say “vreeeeeoooo”.  This is great for physical objects that emanate sound waves, but what about more abstract things, like “happiness”?  Or “malevolence”?  My project, the “Sound Collector,” aims to find a tangible way to find out what words sound like.  It does this by searching YouTube for a word, finding a video, and recording the first 5 seconds of audio, and doing this for several hundred links (this is accomplished with a clever use of the Java robot class).  To auditorially visualize this data, I am thinking of averaging all the collected sound samples of a search term.

Sample Collection of 10 sounds, search term is “gregarious”:

Rough Sketch:

GitHub repository:
https://github.com/johnchoi313/Sound-Collector-Processing-/tree/master