Sounds

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4. Free Sounds

Buy Epic Thunder MP3: here in the mountains, this thunderstorm just got real. The thunder rumbles across the jagged landscape.

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Random sound of the day

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One am record in Odessa, Ukraine. It was a good time there))

Freesound Blog

Sustainability Report 2020

Dear Freesounders, Welcome to our 2020 Sustainability Report! Here we give an update on how 2020 went for Freesound in terms of sustainability, and present our plans for 2021. You’ll see that most of the information is very similar to … Continue reading → Read Full Entry

2020 in numbers

Soundscape

Insatiable online subtitrat in romana. Liturgy of the word vs mass. Hi everyone, Welcome again to our traditional year in numbers post in which we give you some statistics about last year’s Freesound activity. As usual, we will show some general statistics similar to those shown in previous years’ posts, and … Continue reading → Read Full Entry

Community update December 2020

Hi everyone, Welcome to a new community update post! We just realised that we didn’t do any community update posts for the last year 🙁 However, we’ve had some activity in the blog through the guest blog posts (and we’d … Continue reading → Read Full Entry

SIAS project: Sound Art in Colombia

[Guest Blog post by Jorge Mario Díaz Matajira, director of the SIAS project] SIAS stands for “Information System about Sound Art in Colombia” (from the spanish “Sistema de Información sobre el Arte Sonoro en Colombia”). SIAS (http://uan.sainethost.com/) is a project that … Continue reading → Read Full Entry

Barcelona Confinement Soundscape

[Guest Blog post by Ilaria Sartori and Gianni Ginesi] Dear fellow Freesounders, May we introduce Barcelona Confinement Soundscape, a collaborative soundmap and soundscape-related network of researchers, artists and neighbors who stay home and actively listen, record and reflect on soundscape … Continue reading → Read Full Entry

Recent Additions

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Jupyter notebook markdown list. 'Long Drum Roll' by Bobby Morganstein, for 14 hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKmg_GPVw2s&t=0s

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Captured using a Zoom MSH-6 MS and a Zoom H6 recorder. Cutting and some denoising in iZotope RX7. Recorded as ..

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Dawn chorus. Early morning forest/field ambience Loonse en Drunense Duinen near Giersbergen In the province North-Brabant in The Netherlands. More ..

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The Forgotten [Op. 18 4.0] from Local Sense Technology (1999-20xx)

Soundstripe

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Field recording of my neighborhood. Birds chirping, some car noise in the background, some airplane noise in the background. But ..

Learn the pronunciation for each sound, how to spell each sound, and practice each sound for free.

General Lessons

Vowel Sounds

• long a /eɪ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• short a /æ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• long e /i/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• short e /ɛ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• long i /ɑɪ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• short i /ɪ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• long o /oʊ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• short o /ɑ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• long u /ju/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• short u /ʌ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• other u /ʊ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• oo sound /u/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• aw sound /ɔ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• oi sound /ɔɪ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• ow sound /aʊ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)

Sounds Of Silence

R-controlled vowels

• schwa+r /ɚ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• ar sound /ɑr/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• or sound /ɔr/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• air sound /ɛr/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)

Consonant Sounds

• b sound /b/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• ch sound /ʧ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• d sound /d/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• f sound /f/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• g sound /g/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• h sound /h/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• j sound /ʤ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• k sound /k/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• l sound /l/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• m sound /m/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• n sound /n/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• ng sound /ŋ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• p sound /p/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• r sound /r/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• s sound /s/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• sh sound /ʃ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• t sound /t/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• th sound (unvoiced) /θ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• th sound (voiced) /ð/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• v sound /v/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• w sound /w/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• y sound /y/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• z sound /z/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)
• zh sound /ʒ/ (pronunciation, spelling, practice)

Free Sounds

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