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A free Windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary and a text-to-mp3 converter. WordTalk: A CALL Scotland website.

Pearltree I am putting together with resources covering variety of BYOD-related topics, including issues, implementation, classroom strategies, more.

Free sound effects website.  MP3 and WAV.

This audio editing software is a full-featured professional audio and music editor for Windows and Mac.

A good music streaming site. Use the latest tunes in your classroom. Search for an artist to build a playlist. But don't dance in front of your students. No one wants to see that! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

Find hundreds of audio files to listen and download language files in English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin. Record sentences in your own language and upload to this useful project. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects

Royalty free music, (purchase and use it commercially), and free sound effects/music loops.

for people that podcast this looks like a good bit of kit - and it's freeware too!!

software that removes the different voice levels in a recording.

free open source music

"A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too." From VoiceThread

"A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too." From VoiceThread

An internet classic web 2.0 tool. So versatile and so fun. If you can't use this in the classroom, you shouldn't be a teacher. "With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies." (taken from the VoiceThread site - http://voicethread.com/about/features/)