What the Phonics? Helps Non-Danish Speaking Tourists Navigate the Streets of Copenhagen
Posted By Andrew Spitz On November 16, 2012 @ 5:00 pm In Eco Tourism,Eco-Inspiration,Reader Submitted Content | No Comments
WTPh? (What the Phonics) [4] is an interactive installation made by Momo Miyazaki and Andrew Spitz. Street names in Denmark [5] are close to impossible for foreigners to pronounce, so they did a little intervention in the touristic areas of Copenhagen [6]. They recorded a Danish person speaking the street names, then split up each syllable. In true karaoke style, they placed lights above the matching syllable so that in real-time you could see which part of the word is being spoken.
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