Dialogue Generation for Radio Drama

Introduction

Can computational creativity be used to generate dialogue for radio plays? How can research in dramaturgy, conversation analysis, and computer science come together to create such as system?

The original intention of the project was to explore, whether artificial intelligence could be utilized to create radio plays – and if so, how. The focus of the project has since shifted to the computational generation of dialogue for radio plays. The first outcome of the ongoing project, a series of generated dialogues, was produced in autumn 2019. The Finnish broadcasting company YLE plans to produce and broadcast these scripts as part of its radio drama programming.