Audio+Tools

The Wavosaur freeware audio editor works on Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows Vista. ||  ||
 * ==**Audio Creators and Editors:**== ||  ||
 * == [|Audacity] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_179.png width="137" height="60" caption="Picture_179.png"]] || Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. ||  ||
 * == [|Wavosaur] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:wavosaur.png width="138" height="38" align="center" caption="wavosaur.png"]] || A free sound, audio and wav editor for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. It has all the features to edit audio produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.
 * == [|Reaper] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:reaper.png width="142" height="46" caption="reaper.png"]] || A fully featured multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. Windows only. ||  ||
 * == [|Vocaroo] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_68.png width="136" height="57" caption="Picture_68.png"]] || Simple audio recorder, no uploading required. Can embed into any webpage. ||  ||
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__**Text to Speech:**__
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 * == [|Voki] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_102.png align="center" caption="Picture_102.png"]] || Use a speaking avatar to speak your text ||
 * == [|ispeech] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:ispeech.png width="143" height="46" caption="ispeech.png"]] || Convert any text to audio, embed into any webpage. Lifelike voices. ||
 * == [|Text to Speech Translator] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_99.png width="137" height="39" caption="Picture_99.png"]] || Converts text into lifelike spoken audio in a variety of languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Russian. ||


 || || Upload word processing files, webpages, pdf, or almost anything and choose the reader to suit. Will also read in English, Spanish or French || Garageband or Audacity. ||
 * == [|Spoken Text] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_100.png caption="Picture_100.png"]] || Upload any word, pdf, powerpoint file and convert to speech ||
 * ==__Sound Effects:__== ||
 * == **[|SoundSnap]** == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_39.png width="144" height="64" caption="Picture_39.png"]] || Lots of sound effects and Foley effects. Small files, but can extend them on
 * == **[|SoundSnap]** == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_39.png width="144" height="64" caption="Picture_39.png"]] || Lots of sound effects and Foley effects. Small files, but can extend them on
 * == [|Soungle] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_61.png width="140" height="41" caption="Picture_61.png"]] || Search for sound effects and download. ||
 * == [|Freesound] == || [[image:cooltoolsforschools:Picture_190.png width="144" height="46" caption="Picture_190.png"]] || Collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. ||
 * || **Audio Resources** ||  ||
 * [|Find Sounds] ||  ||
 * [|Free Play Music] ||  ||
 * [|Garage Band] ||  ||
 * [|Podshow Music] ||  ||
 * [|Internet Archive Audio] ||  ||
 * [|Nature Sounds] ||  ||
 * [|American Rhetoric] ||  ||
 * [|History and Politics Out Loud] ||  ||
 * [|Creative Commons Audio] ||  ||
 * [|Incompetetech.com] ||  ||
 * [|CC Mixter] ||  ||
 * [|Flash Kit] ||  ||
 * [|Acid Planet’s 8 pack of free loops] ||  || ||