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Orality: A Semantic Canvas for Externalizing and Clarifying Thoughts with Speech

Speech becomes editable spatial material, not a transcript to clean up later.

Presented by Feng Liang, June 8th

AuthorsCity University of Hong Kong

Wengxi Li, Jingze Tian, Can Liu (劉燦).

Why careLLM voice needs structure
  • Voice is important in meetings.
  • Voice is becoming important in vibe coding.
  • Current voice/chat artifacts stay too linear for sensemaking.
Novelty/ContributionSpeech becomes a semantic canvas

The system turns spoken thought into editable spatial objects with embedded AI scaffolds.

Orality main interface
Figure 1: semantic canvas, speech input, AI stimulation, history, and export.