StoryCorps to Launch Global Expansion With $1M TED Prize

After amassing a huge collection of recorded voices in the United States and creating a popular fixture on public radio, the national oral history project StoryCorps is going global.

Project founder Dave Isay recently won the 2015 TED Prize of $1 million to help carry out his wish for a worldwide expansion. On Wednesday, Isay announced the launch of a new StoryCorps smartphone app to help bring the oral history project to other countries. The app was launched as Isay's TED Talk was released online.

StoryCorps, based in New York, records 40-minute interviews between two regular people, usually friends or family members, with the help of facilitators at sites across the country to show that everyone has a story and that every life matters. An interview airs every Friday on NPR. Since the project was created in 2003, about 100,000 Americans have participated.