The Educational Audio & Video Library | Open Culture
Collection of audio and video for education. Includes audio books, podcasts, music, selected YouTube videos, and university content
Purple Planet Music
Incidental music licensed CC-By
Voicethread 4 Education » home
Wiki collection of resources and examples for using Voicethread for education purposes. Also includes some best practices and professional development examples.
elearninglive.com » Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison - Part One - Encoding Bitrate
Results of an experiment on the encoding bitrate for Captivate. Mark Siegriest is trying to find the best audio settings to balance sound quality and file size.
The most surprising finding in this is that at the lowest bitrates, the file size actually went up, not down. 32kbps was the smallest file size in his sampling.
So basically from what I can see there is no point in ever going below 32kbps as you’re gaining filesize and losing quality.
IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
Audio primary source collection with international and regional dialects of English. Intended primarily for actors learning to imitate an accent, but could have other educational uses too.
Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music
Sheet music and audio in the public domain. You can hear a random piece or listen to their online radio station too.
Read The Words
Free text-to-speech application that creates mp3s of content from multiple formats. Audio can be shared on a blog as a podcast but not sold commercially. Originally designed to help students with learning disabilities access text more easily.
The Bamboo Project Blog: Using Voicethread to Create an Online Presentation Portfolio
Interesting idea--using Voicethread to create mini presentations for an online portfolio
Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Converting cassettes to mp3 files
Video tutorial on converting cassettes to mp3 using an external USB sound card
WWW FAQs: Why do my MP3 files sound bad in Flash Player?
Explains the sampling rate issues with audio in Flash and provides step-by-step directions to correct it using Audacity and LAME
Using audio narration in elearning » Making Change
CEP817 Audio Artifacts Lessons
Historical Voices
Talking History
Brenda's Piano Studio - Online Recital
Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
Easy Peasy Rich Media - VoiceThreads » CogDogBlog
midomi
Search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone.
VoiceThread
Demonstration of Different ways to Play a Sound from a Web Page
freesound :: home page
Free Sound Effects
FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds
Free Sound Effects: Nature Sounds : Public Domain Sounds