BBC Sound Effects Library

sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk

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When they use sound effects in news reports, they're called "nat pops."

They're often used to make reporters sound like they're somewhere they're not. They can be very convincing.

Damn, search for "Tardis" turns up zero results.

Maybe it was exterminated?

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=NHU05002129

If you ever wanted to know what a farting chimp sounds like, here's the record.

Not related. The Wilhelm scream is used in many movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDpuA90KEY

wow! this is a really generous community contribution by the BBC.

you have to pay to license the sounds, and even then, only "synchronous usage" (i.e. use in video for sound effects that precisely line up with what's being depicted on-screen) is covered

Ya this is amazing!

Are there free ones? Seemed to be $5.

All the sounds are free for non-commercial and personal use: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/faqs

I use these in my AI video generation project.

I am also making a tool which will have all movies so we can pick the clips out of it using AI prompt then automatically make content like this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/I5Ao5u4WZFw?si=NUbcfVwyhIiyfvPz

I am halfway there already.

> I use these in my AI video generation project.

this is not synchronous usage, so is not covered under the (paid) license

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