Sounder - Feasibility study to evaluate a novel writing support tool

PinTale的动机是，每年都有数百万想成为作家的人需要为他们的小说策划这项复杂的任务提供支持。在那些开始写小说的人中，只有3%的人完成了写作，这通常是由于管理构建人物和世界所需的大量信息的挑战，以及追踪总体叙事、时间线、交织情节和子情节的复杂性。PinTale是由三位崭露头角的小说家创立的，他们意识到，尽管有大量的软件解决方案支持作家（Scrivener， LivingWriter等），但没有一个能提供比传统纸质工具（笔记本、剪贴簿、活页夹和文件柜）的数字化版本更先进的东西。因此，我们开始与领先的人工智能和自然语言处理专家合作，为作者提供机器学习和数据可视化的力量，以改变他们在写作过程中的体验和享受，并提高他们的产出质量。PinTale是一个独特的故事结构平台，具有一套功能，使作家能够构建他们的想法，计划情节/子情节弧线，并有效地管理和无缝访问他们在开发和编写小说时产生的大量信息，例如，通过智能标签，新颖的交互式情节功能和动态可视化。这个项目将为PinTale一个高度创新的用户需求组件——我们好奇的聊天机器人伴侣Sounder——提供技术可行性研究和市场研究。Sounder将使用自然语言处理（NLP）与作者对话，挖掘他们的进一步信息。critical Sounder不会发明任何东西，但会让作者引导对话，Sounder扮演写作教练或同伴小组倾听者的角色。Sounder从作者那里提取的信息将自动填充PinTale，自动标记信息，为PinTale提供更广泛的功能。该项目为PinTale提供了一个及时的机会，与巴斯大学的人工智能/自然语言处理专家和Optima的设计专业知识合作，为Sounder开发创新和雄心勃勃的想法，同时通过巴斯温泉大学创意写作研究中心和当地写作小组参与利益相关者的参与。该项目的成功完成将为PinTale带来巨大的增长机遇，Sounder预计将使其收入增长250-500%。我们计划在2024年全国小说写作月启动该项目，届时50万有抱负的小说家将在30天内开始写小说的任务。

PinTale is motivated by the need to support the millions of would-be authors each year in the complex task of planning their novels. A staggeringly small 3% of those who set out to write a novel ever finish writing, often due to the challenge of managing the vast quantities of information required to construct their characters and worlds, and the complexity of tracking overarching narratives, timelines, and intertwining plots and subplots.PinTale was founded by three budding novelists upon realising that, despite there being an abundance of software solutions to support writers (Scrivener, LivingWriter, etc.), none offer anything more advanced than digitised versions of old, paper-based tools: notebooks, scrapbooks, ring-binders and filing cabinets. Accordingly, we set out to work with leading AI and NLP experts to equip authors with the power of machine learning and data visualisation to transform their experience and enjoyment of the writing process and to improve the quality of their output.PinTale is a unique story structuring platform with a suite of functions enabling writers to structure their thoughts, plan plot/sub-plot arcs, and effectively manage and seamlessly access the vast quantities of information that they generate as they develop and write their novels, e.g., via intelligent tagging, novel interactive plotting features and dynamic visualisations.This project will enable a technical feasibility study and market research for a highly innovative new user-demanded component of PinTale: our curious chatbot companion, Sounder. Sounder will use natural language processing (NLP) to converse with the author, mining them for further information. Critically Sounder will not invent anything, but will allow the writer to guide the conversation, with Sounder fulfilling a writing coach or peer-group listener role. The information extracted from the author by Sounder will automatically populate PinTale, with automated tagging of information, powering PinTale's wider features.This project offers PinTale a timely opportunity to develop the innovative and ambitious idea for Sounder, in collaboration with AI/NLP experts at the University of Bath and design expertise from Optima, alongside stakeholder engagement via Bath Spa University Research Centre in Creative Writing and local writing groups. Successful completion will put PinTale on the pathway to meet a significant growth opportunity, with Sounder projected to increase revenue potential by 250-500%.We plan for project launch to coincide with National Novel Writing Month 2024, when half a million aspiring novelists will embark upon the task of writing a novel in 30 days.