SoundBible.com

SoundBible.com is a website that offers a collection of free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites for multimedia projects, videos, games, and presentations. 

Users can browse and download in either wav or mp3 format a variety of sounds, including animal sounds, nature sounds, human sounds, and more. The website provides these sounds under various licenses, including public domain and Creative Commons licenses, allowing users to utilize them in their projects without copyright issues.

Find it on:

https://soundbible.com/

BBC Sound Effects

The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. 

There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years. These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special effects made for BBC TV and Radio productions, as well as 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive.

As well as browsing and searching through this treasure trove of sounds, you can also make and share your own mixes and soundscapes using the ‘mixer mode’ function.  (Source BBC Sound Effects)  

Find them on:

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

Tools for Clear Speech (American English)

The Tools for Clear Speech (TfCS) program improves the pronunciation, fluency, and pragmatic abilities of English language learners (ELLs) and non-native English speakers at Baruch College (The City University of New York). 

On the Consonants and Vowels section you’ll find in-depth practice with each individual sound in Standard American English, as well as various combinations of sounds

Find it on:. 

https://tfcs.baruch.cuny.edu/consonants-vowels/ 

Audio Joiner

Audio Joiner is a free online tool you can use to combine multiple audio tracks into one. There is no limit on the number of tracks you can join. Audio Joiner supports more than 300 audio formats and converts them to mp3.

Visit:

https://audio-joiner.com/

BBC Sound Effects

More than 15,000 sound effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under these terms:

https://github.com/bbcarchdev/Remarc/blob/master/doc/2016.09.27_RemArc_Content%20licence_Terms%20of%20Use_final.pdf

The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes.

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

Voicepods

This A.I application converts texts to human-like audio sounds. 8 different voices are available in English. It also supports 16 International voices with Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Spanish (Latin American and European), Hindi (Written as English, or Hindi)

Converted texts can be downloaded as MP3 audio files.

You can use it for free (5 conversions/ month) or paying for Premium features.

Visit:

https://www.voicepods.com/

Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature

The Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress dates back to 1943. It contains nearly two thousand recordings—of poets and prose writers participating in literary events at the Library’s Capitol Hill campus as well as sessions at the Library’s Recording Laboratory.

Most of these recordings are captured on magnetic tape reels, and only accessible at the Library itself. In digitizing the archive and presenting it online, the Library hopes to greatly broaden its use and value.

(Source Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature)

Visit:

https://www.loc.gov/collections/archive-of-recorded-poetry-and-literature/about-this-collection/

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An amazing video by Greg Condon, filmmaker and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY.

Sounds of English

This website is a collaboration between Sharon Widmayer, Ph.D, and Holly Gray, ESL teachers and curriculum developers for over 20 years. 

It's primary goal is to offer language schools, trainers and students tools that make the learning-teaching process easier and more efficient in the field of English sounds and pronunciation.

It includes sections on vowels, consonants and stress and intonation. It also provides with some lessons and activities.

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soundsofenglish

On Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/soundsofenglish/

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/

Jolly Phonics

Jolly Phonics is child centred approach to teaching literacy through synthetic phonics. With actions for each of the 42 letter sounds, the multi-sensory method is very motivating for children and teachers, who can see their students achieve. 

Source and more information: http://jollylearning.co.uk/overview-about-jolly-phonics/

Sound Maps

Interactive maps to find recordings of regional accents and dialects, wildlife and environmental sounds, and selected world and traditional music.

http://sounds.bl.uk/sound-maps 

See also http://sounds.bl.uk/ , where British Library Sounds presents 50,000 recordings and their associated documentation from the BL’s collections.