NYPL and The Moth to Launch the Together We Listen Project

The New York Public Library (NYPL) and The Moth have established a partnership. The collaborators aim to make stories more accessible for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

The two organizations plan to launch a new project called Together We Listen. Several audio files, sourced from The Moth event recordings and stories collected from the NYPL’s Community Oral History Project, were shipped off to a transcription service called Pop Up Archive. The transcripts that were produced contain errors which is why the public is now being solicited to help with final proofreading.

Here’s more from the press release: “This joint crowdsourcing effort, called Together We Listen, is centered around an interactive transcript editor developed by NYPL Labs, The New York Public Library’s digitization and innovation unit. Anyone who wants to help edit transcripts online can visit http://togetherwelisten.nypl.org where they are directed to work on either The Moth’s or NYPL’s story collections. NYPL is also organizing in-person events at various Library branches to encourage community members to help transcribe the oral histories for their own neighborhoods.”