Collecting Human Voices With a StoryCorps App

nytimes.com - David Isay is a Guggenheim fellow, a longtime audio documentarian and a voice familiar to anyone who has listened to public radio in the last 15 years. He is also the founder of StoryCorps, a Brooklyn organization that collects the stories of ordinary Americans. In its brief existence, StoryCorps has amassed a significant trove of American oral history. In remarks at the annual TED conference in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Isay said StoryCorps held “the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.”