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Duck under asks the question: Who gets to be a storyteller, and can we expand that definition? This listening platform brings producers and listeners together to add context to audio, making stories more inclusive and creating new ways of telling them derived from expanded participation. Using duck under, a producer can provide clips to annotate the main story that they couldn’t include in the original piece. Audiophiles and listeners can use it share their thoughts throughout the story, giving the audience a voice as well. Duck under creates a more genuine, less packaged feel to audio stories and provides a tool for providing more nuance and depth in reporting. Comments are recorded and shared in the duck under app, and appear underneath the audio. The audio of the original story fades out when a comment is added, and fades back in when the comment is complete. Members: Adwoa Boakye, Katie Briggs, Reid Delahunt, Sarah Siplak, Shindo Strzelczyk, Stephen Suen, Todd Whitney, Technology used: Sketch, Mockuuups (Wireframes/mockups/identity work), ProTools, Adobe Audition (Audio editing), Glitch, Javascript, Node/Express, jQuery, jPlayer, SQLite/Sequelize, Recordmp3.js, LAME (Development) Our deck: https://docs.google.com/a/slbradio.org/presentation/d/1Z4cr2s0h6Kh-4BdA3aH4OqTRcGbQ73AJnbZC3M5CMXc/edit?usp=sharing Our code: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/duck-under?path=README.md:1:0