
[bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com] is comprised of 2,088 short voice recordings collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service, assembled together to sing the song . In 1962, the became the first computer to sing, singing the song Daisy Bell.
Online workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard. Each person was paid $0.06 for their participation via . The work is accompanied by a visual interface that allows the exploration of the large collection of voices.
Watch the short video documentary below.
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