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BBC Sound Effects Library

by atulatul on 9/25/24, 11:46 AM with 12 comments

• by StephenSmith on 9/25/24, 12:48 PM

  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.

• by bcks on 9/25/24, 12:42 PM

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

• by pwdisswordfishd on 9/25/24, 12:45 PM

  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.

• by atulatul on 9/25/24, 2:10 PM

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

• by xyzzyfoobar on 9/25/24, 12:29 PM

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

• by faangguyindia on 9/25/24, 12:50 PM

  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.