What’s your favorite item at the Internet Archive?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:40 am
This transcription recording of a child playing accordion: _four-leaf-clover_sonny-walikis-and-his-squeeze-box_gbia0001730a. We transferred this record without knowing who the performer was or anything about their history. The family of Sonny Walikis actually found the recording in our collection shortly after their family member had passed away and reached out to tell us the history of the recordings. I always think of this record as the best example of why we preserve media – to connect people to lost stories and help memories live on.
What’s your favorite collection at the Internet Archive?
The 78rpm record collection! archive.org/details/georgeblood
What are you reading?
The Tower of Swallows by Andrzej Sapkowski
What is your secret talent?
Morphing into a children’s choir! I was a recording studio intern and phone number database we had children booked to sing the part but they got too distracted in the booth. So I sang all of the parts slowed down 10% and we sped them up to make me sound “child-like”. The results are one of my only vocal credits: .
Posted in 78rpm, Audio Archive, Books Archive | Tagged donations, national library week |
AI Audio Challenge: Audio Restoration of 78rpm Records based on Expert Examples
Posted on April 24, 2023 by Brewster Kahle
Hopefully we have a dataset primed for AI researchers to do something really useful, and fun– how to take noise out of digitized 78rpm records.
What’s your favorite collection at the Internet Archive?
The 78rpm record collection! archive.org/details/georgeblood
What are you reading?
The Tower of Swallows by Andrzej Sapkowski
What is your secret talent?
Morphing into a children’s choir! I was a recording studio intern and phone number database we had children booked to sing the part but they got too distracted in the booth. So I sang all of the parts slowed down 10% and we sped them up to make me sound “child-like”. The results are one of my only vocal credits: .
Posted in 78rpm, Audio Archive, Books Archive | Tagged donations, national library week |
AI Audio Challenge: Audio Restoration of 78rpm Records based on Expert Examples
Posted on April 24, 2023 by Brewster Kahle
Hopefully we have a dataset primed for AI researchers to do something really useful, and fun– how to take noise out of digitized 78rpm records.