Podcasting Tools
Remember podcasts can be a simple or as complex as you need them to be. Equipment ranges from a telephone or a microphone and a computer to multiple microphones, sound effects, digital music, mixers, audio editing software and more.
Music and Sound Effects
Tools for Creating Original Music
- Vocaroo Easy to use voice recording. All you need is a microphone. Record and share by email or embed into your own page.
- AudioPal Create your message using a mike and your computer, type in the text (text-to-speech), upload an audio file, or call a toll-free number. You'll be emailed a link to the embeddable player.
- Podomatic Makes it easy to find, record and publish your podcast.
- PodcastOMatic Converts your blog posts into podcasts using text-to-speech technology.
- VozMe is a free service that converts any text into an MP3 file. Just type or paste in some text and create a downloadable MP3 file. The site works in English, Spanish, Italian, Hindi, Portuguese, and Catalan. You can also choose to hear a male or female voic
- YAKiToMe! Turns any text into a podcast. IYour choice of (computerized) voices. (Hear the text of "What is a podcast?" at the top of this page in YAKiToMe!)
Music and Sound Effects
- AudioNautix A collection of music ;by genre
- ccMixter Music Discovery Creative commons licensed music and sounds
- FindSounds searches the web for sounds
- Flash Kit - Sound FX
- The Free Sound Project
- Jamendo Hundreds of free songs for you to download and use.
- JewelBeat 99 cent music for your projects
- Music Alley Music and other tools for your podcasts
- Musopen online music library of copyright free music (public domain music)
- Purple Planet Music can be used free of charge for web-based projects e.g. YouTube (see 'Using Our Music' for more info) in exchange for a link to the Purple Planet site.
- SonnyBoo Free music for your projects
- SoundzAbound Royalty-free music for schools
- SoundCloud A social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and music and share. Some may be downloaded, some may be embedded.
- Wolfgang's Vault streaming concerts
- The Big List of Legal Music Download Websites
Tools for Creating Original Music
- Beat Lab is a free service through which you can experiment with thousands of sound and rhythm combinations.
- Incredibox is a neat website that allows you to create unique rhythms and sounds from drag-and-drop menu.
- iNudge Create music through a graphic interface.
- Loop Labs is a free service for creating your own music mixes using existing music loops and your own recordings.
- Monkey Machine is a free web-based program that allows students to experiment with drum set sounds and rhythms. Using Monkey Machine students can customize the selection of drums and cymbals in their virtual drum set.*
- Music Shake provides a free online tool for students to experiment with and create music from scratch. Music Shake provides the instrumental sounds and students select the beats.*
- Mutopia*offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others. (Let students play and record music!)
- Soundation is a free service that allows anyone to create and remix sound tracks online. To create your original work you can select from the gallery of 400 free sounds, upload your own sounds, or record new sounds using the instruments and keyboard built into Soundation.*
- Soungle Search, find and download free sound effects.
- Tony-b Machine create your own music here with this funky machine.
- With UJAM, you sing or play an instrument while recording to UJAM. When you're done recording, use UJAM to alter the sound quality of your voice, turn your voice into other sounds, adjust the tempo of your song, and or remix a song to include your recording.*
- Wolfram Tones uses algorithms, music theory, and sound samples to generate new collections of sounds.