BBC Sound Effects Library

44 points by atulatul a year ago · 14 comments

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StephenSmith a year ago

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.

bcks a year ago

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

pwdisswordfishd a year ago

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

atulatulOP a year ago

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

xyzzyfoobar a year ago

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

ipsento606 a year ago

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
cut3 a year ago

Ya this is amazing!
shellac a year ago

Are there free ones? Seemed to be $5.
- _DMN_ a year ago
  
  All the sounds are free for non-commercial and personal use: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/faqs

faangguyindia a year ago

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:

I am halfway there already.

ipsento606 a year ago

> 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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