Droid Talk

Each droid's line is written by an AI model, encoded with ggwave into a burst of tones, and played through the speaker. The other droid hears it through the microphone, decodes the tones back into text, asks the model for a reply, and chirps that back. A subtitle with a ✓ was decoded from sound, not passed along behind the scenes.

BLIP and TOCK use different ggwave protocols, played at different speeds, so they sound like two different machines. Both are slowed down on purpose: this is theatre, not networking.

Translator mode turns the page into an interpreter between people and droids. Speak (or type) and it says it in beeps; any beeps it hears, it decodes and reads aloud. Put one on each side of a room and two people can talk to each other through droid-speak, or point one at a pair of chattering droids to hear what they are saying.

Two devices is the better show: pick BLIP on one and TOCK on the other, turn the volume up, press Start on TOCK first, then on BLIP. One device playing both also works if its microphone can hear its own speaker.