Across cultures, water has served as a recipient of human confession, a yielding medium that receives vulnerability where rigid surfaces cannot. We present Whispering Water, an interactive installation that materializes human-AI dialogue through cymatic patterns on water. Participants confess secrets to a water surface, triggering a four-phase ritual: confession, contemplation, response, and release. The user's speech sentiment is directly transmitted into the water to prime its state, while semantic content enters a multi-agent system, initiating ripples of conversation where agent identities are situated through discourse and voice profiles are chosen based on what they say. We propose a novel algorithm that decomposes speech into component waves and reconstructs them in water, establishing a translation between speech and the physics of material form. By rendering machine reasoning as emergent physical phenomena, the installation explores possibilities for emotional self-exploration through ambiguous, sensory-rich interfaces.

翻译：在不同文化中，水都承载着人类倾诉的功能——作为一种柔性的媒介，它能接纳刚性表面无法承受的脆弱。我们提出“私语之水”，一个通过水面的声振图案将人机对话具象化的交互装置。参与者向水面倾诉秘密，触发一个包含四个阶段的仪式：倾诉、沉思、回应与释放。用户语音的情感被直接传递至水体以预设其状态，而语义内容则进入一个多智能体系统，激起对话的涟漪——其中智能体的身份通过话语得以确立，其语音特征则根据所言内容进行选择。我们提出一种新颖算法，将语音分解为组成波并在水中重构，从而建立语音与物质形态物理特性之间的转译关系。通过将机器推理呈现为涌现的物理现象，该装置探索了通过模糊而感官丰富的界面进行情感自我探索的可能性。