The site comprises recordings contributed by native speakers who imitate familiar sounds, such as animal calls and vehicle noises as they are typically rendered in their own language.
The website was created in 2002 by French-born Agathe Jacquillat and Germany-born Austrian Tomi Vollauschek of design studio FL@33.
[citation needed] The online collection focuses on the pronunciation and comparison of familiar sounds by presenting a range of animals and other objects as icons.
[4] Many of the contributors are young children and the site is designed to be navigated largely through images rather than words.
[3] In 2011, the project was selected for inclusion in an exhibition entitled Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).