#31 - Pop Up Archive, audio search API

 

Anne Wootten and Bailey Smith believe they have come up with a practical solution to transcribe and search audio files.

“Pop Up Archive is a Web application that makes audio searchable, leveraging technology for automated transcription and entity extraction and, as a result, making that audio accessible to many more people than ever before,†said Wooten, who met Smith as a graduate student at

“Anyone using Pop Up Archive has the option of adding one or multiple audio files and organizing those files in sort of buckets or collections through which they can track certain projects,†Wooten said. “But whether or not they choose to organize, there is metadata that's already automatically created and that's what really makes the audio searchable. And that does include the transcriptions.â€

Wootten and Smith spoke to It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell about how Pop Up Archive can help make it easier to organize and search what were once "opaque" audio files.