Time to get horribly stupidly intelligently autistic.
This was a dangerous idea to stumble across, but I was thinking about robots, robot girls, and communications since I'm (again) learning another language.
This got me thinking of when I learned hexadecimal in highschool, and came up with a stupidly interesting idea.
We're working with robot limitations and variability here, so we are going to assume basic variance in how they can use their vocal units whatever they are etc etc.
So, if I use hex as a base, then what if all words are formulated in a 6 character (3? bites) of hex like in color picking in art programs, but the hex values are translated into sound.
Yes, standard, oh play x note from x character over 16 characters, boring.
We go further, because there's a little (very basic) trick to make it, unusable really for humans.
Lets use an example word in hex: 0f5940 (thank you random hex generator)
What we can do is use the first digit as the 'overtone' or the base from which the word is then decoded.
Then we have all other tones played in sequence 'under' the base to encode, well, a lot of words.
This could be taken further, as all languages are governed by rules as much as they break them (thank you english) so what if all f tones are null, a blank space/ rest in the word. This would then break up different words, and make ffffff silent, a space, or just not a word at all.
The f= rest then also allows for 1-6 character words, making all following 'would be' tones into just the base tone, and you could give f an overtone for being the first digit in the word and then following f is silent, who knows.
But if you know the variance in hex, and how many color hex values there are, that's a lot of words.
This is where I feel like it gets even better, because it can then store and catalog all words by base tone, digit= x concept, then all following tones played refine the search through sub sections of information.
f = direction or position
4 = request/ action to be taken
This is ham stringed as an example, but you can understand the concept here, the specificity of each number in each position (tone and timing) allows for such a complex and intricate means to make a 'robot language' that you can do away with a lot of the other aspects in it like conjunctions, pronouns (because what robots need pronouns /j) and a number of other 'human' required aspects, as they can be equivalently conveyed in the word itself or just wouldn't be needed for conveying immediate information whatever job they may be doing.
Do I expect this to go anywhere? Meh, I know for sure as hell I'm not going to do anything with it, but it is an interesting concept for sound design of robots in media.
Would this be the most effective way to store and relay information between bots? Well given we have bluetooth, no, but it's more fun and that's what really matters.
There is also the comedic potential of two robots flirting while a human mechanic is in the room just trying to do work, and just believes they're chatting away 'as all robots do'. But in fact they're secretly hexting each other back and forth. (yes I do think I'm funny, thank you)
