UA Poetry Center transcribes, captions over 12,000 recordings dating back to 1963

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UA Poetry Center transcribes, captions over 12,000 recordings dating back to 1963
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Jacqueline Aguilar joined KGUN 9 as a multimedia journalist in February of 2024.

The University of Arizona's Poetry Center's VOCA archive of recorded poetry now has over 12,000 digitized captions!VOCA is an online, audio-visual archive containing poetry that was made at the center.The project started in 2021. It took countless hours from professional transcribers, poetry center staff and interns to transcribe and caption the recordings. Web developers even redesigned the VOCA website to show the new features.

'We've had a large number of poets come through since the '60s including a number of Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, national book award winners,' said Kortemeier.The archive gives access to anyone, anywhere without having to request it.'The captions, as it turns out, are also useful for anybody who is viewing the archive in a public environment,' Kortemeier said.

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