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WEBFinds: Listening & Speaking 2
http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
A site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. A search engine with a focus on sounds which is simple and easy to use.
To have the bells and whistles needed to make your lessons sizzle, with this site you can produce these noises and others at a moment’s notice. The actual sound is better than a translation in many cases.
Wake your class with a gong, quiet them with wind chimes or let them hear a volcano or a didgeridoo for the first time.
| Many types of sounds can be found. Here is a partial selection:
Animals: alligator to zebra (dinosaur?)
Birds: blackbird to woodpecker Holidays: Christmas, Halloween, etc. Household: aerosol, boiling, cuckoo clock, door slam, scissors, toilet, zipper Insects: bee to wasp Mayhem: arrow, broken glass, glass, crash, fight, laser, pistol, shock, sword, whip Miscellaneous: ambiance, bang, beep, blip, bloop, boing, buzz, clang, clank, clink, creak, crunch, growl, hiss, howl, hum, leak, Morse Code, pop, rattle, rip, rustle, scrape, scratch, screech, shuffle, sizzle, skid, snap, snip, squeak, squeal, squish, static, steam, stone, swing, tap, tear, thud, tick, tink, whine, whoosh, wood Musical Instruments: accordion to xylophone Nature: cave, earthquake, fire, geyser, jungle, lightning, ocean, storm, surf, swamp, thunder, tornado, waterfall Noisemakers: alarm, buzzer, chime, foghorn, horn, siren, sonar, whistle, wind chimes Office: briefcase, cash register, coins, computer keyboard, computer printer, desk bell, elevator, fax, pencil sharpener, stapler People: applause, baby, belch, bite, blow nose, breath, burp, cheer, chew, chomp, cough, crowd, footsteps, gargle, gasp, giggle, groan, grunt, gulp, heartbeat, hiccup, kiss, march, moan, scream, shiver, sigh, shurp, sneeze, sniff, snore, spit, write, yawn, yell Sports and Recreation: baseball to tennis Tools: axe to wrench TV and Movies: Popular shows, cartoons Vehicles: airplane to train, trolley, and truck |
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways. Collect the voices of an entire group on a single page by computer microphone, telephone, text, audio file (MP3/WAV), and webcam. The simple voice and video commenting takes place right in the web browser with no software to install.
On the K-12 Solutions Page, you can watch an explanatory video of how the system works.
Free Audio Books Online
Audio versions of public domain books. There are several options for listening. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. There are 2,557 audiobooks in 26 languages. Hugh McGuire launched the volunteer-effort audiobook publishing model LibriVox on August 10th, 2005. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video#directory
This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online. Among their free content is a newsletter, articles and podcasts.
http://www.alexwilson.com/telltale/spokenalexandria.php
Free Creative Commons library of modern and classic literature (speeches, stories and poetry). Recordings at Telltale will be released free at Spoken Alexandria and elsewhere within 5 years of release at Telltale, thus continually building and funding a free audiobook library.
http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php
More than 50 classics in free audio form by a group of Santa Fe (New Mexico) local actors and technicians. Schools are welcome to make these audio books available to their students free. Begun in 2004, the titles include assorted classics as well as some modern literature and science fiction.
http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com
Dozens of free classics in mp3 format for iPods and MP3 players, some “human narrated” and some using “text to speech”.