BBC makes 16,000 sound effects available

The Independent reports: [edited]

The BBC has made its sound effects archive available to the public for free for the first time.

The archive incorporates effects used by the corporation's radio output since the 1920s.

So you are in luck if you're in need of the sound of a South American parrot talking and screeching, the sound of the interior of a Belgian post office, or the sound of an inflating rubber dinghy. All this and more thanks to the BBC's easily searchable iteration of the archive.

There is one reservation on its usage: as per the RemArc licence, the sound effects can only be used for "personal, educational, or research purposes".
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