World in Words

The Pop Up Archive interface lets users jump around in an audio recording by clicking on the accompanying text.

A California startup tries to capture the elusive spoken word — and make it searchable

Technology

Pop Up Archive is making spoken-word audio searchable. It joins a similar effort by the BBC to tag and transcribe words spoken into microphones, but until now not written down.

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