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Sacred Sound Radio Hub

63 radio stations from 10 spiritual traditions on an interactive map, with a comparative AI explorer. The living sound corpus of the religious heritage research.

Author's contribution
Curation of the station catalogue, design and development.
Context
  • Research, ITSERR / UNIMORE / FSCIRE, PNRR
Data
Radio listening, map and favourites run in the browser. Questions to the explorer go through a serverless function of the app and reach Google Gemini.
Sacred Sound Radio Hub
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Publication

Dal testo al suono: strumenti ermeneutici assistiti dall'AI per lo studio delle tradizioni religiose (From Text to Sound)

Zenodo, bilingual IT/EN conference paper, CC BY 4.0

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20719806

The project

The sound companion of SacredTexts AI within the ITSERR / UNIMORE / FSCIRE (PNRR) research line on religious heritage. Where the former analyses texts, this one brings the living traditions to the ear, aggregating 63 radio stations from 10 spiritual traditions, from Gregorian chant to Quranic recitation, from Buddhist meditation to Sikh kirtan, geolocated on a Leaflet map with per-tradition clustering.

The comparative explorer, based on Gemini, analyses cross-cutting themes (sung prayer, sacred music, meditation, rituals, festivities) and answers questions on single traditions. Persistent favourites, bilingual IT/EN, installable as a PWA. Presented within the ITSERR/RESILIENCE Superseminar 2026 and described in the contribution Dal testo al suono (Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20719806). Since version 3.0 a bilingual research page documents the curation of the catalogue and the open research questions.

Features

  • 63 stations from 10 traditions
  • Leaflet map with clustering
  • Comparative AI explorer
  • Persistent favourites
  • Bilingual IT/EN
  • Installable PWA

Characteristics

  • Audio
  • AI
  • Maps

Tech stack

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Leaflet
  • Google Gemini API
  • PWA

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