Record Your Story

(734) 926-9196

All messages are anonymized

This phone number is connected to an automated voice recognition program. As our computer system struggles to understand your story, it will build a poem based on what it hears and what it knows. Find a deeper appreciation for the uniquely human act of crying and connect with others as you see and hear our collection of computer poems at our installations and here on the web.

Hear an example

1) Anonymized phone call

2) Resulting computer poem

[Sorry, you need the latest flash player.]

[Sorry, you need the latest flash player.]

What could a computer know about crying?

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