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Books Should Be Free Free Audio Books from the public domain Download a free audio book in mp3, iPod, or iTunes format today"

"LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 25,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos."

"Choose your video encoder, frame rate, bit rate, sample rate, audio encoder, number of channels, and more! Convert .flv to .mp4, .flv to .mp4, .flv to .avi and .flv to .mov. Adapter can convert all that, forwards, backwards or mixed and matched. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Adapter handles conversions to and from virtually every popular video, audio and image format with grace and style."

Using Posterous and Audio Boo for podcasts posted to your blog. All for free.

A variety of tools and applications to manipulate audio files. 

SoundNote is the best way to take notes on your iPad. It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail. While playing back your recording, just tap a word; SoundNote will jump right to that point in the audio. Use SoundNote's powerful drawing tool for quick sketches. It's easy to edit them, too. Tap a drawing to select it, or tap twice to select an individual stroke. From there, you can drag it to wherever you want, or tap "Delete" to get rid of it. Use two fingers to zoom and scroll.

Record through your MacBook's headphone jack CNET's Donald Bell shows how to switch the headphone jack on a 13-inch MacBook Pro into an audio recording input suitable for stereo recording, instruments, or microphones.

The good: The Roku 2 XS is an ultrasmall Wi-Fi streaming-media box that offers dozens of Internet video and audio services, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, Crackle, Pandora, NHL, NBA, and MLB, among many others. It works with HD and standard TVs, and it includes a Wii-like motion controller for casual gaming (Angry Birds is included). The bottom line: Thanks to a varied range of content offerings--including Netflix, Amazon, Hulu Plus, Crackle, and Pandora--that beats the Apple TV, the Roku 2 XS is the best all-around streaming-media box you can get for less than $100.

"SpeakPipe voice recorder allows you to create an audio recording directly from a browser by using your microphone. The recording is produced locally on your computer, and you can record as many times as you need. There is the option to save your recording on the SpeakPipe server and get a link to it, so you can send it via email or use on the web. Works on iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Android devices."

You can see a list of recommended resources in different categories ranging from photo editing to audio editing to video editing and more. 

"Automatic audio post production web service for podcasts, broadcasters, radio shows, movies, screencasts"

free tool that allows you to create QR codes that when scanned will play a short audio message. To create your message and QR code you can record a voice message by clicking the microphone icon on QR Voice or you can type in your message. Either way you're limited to 100 characters. QR Voice is offered in 38 languages.

Free resources and tutorials regarding the creation and use of digital media productions. 

Great example and explanation of StoryKit by Wesley Fryer for use as a digital storytelling tool.

Text to speech, read aloud applications, convert to MP3, audio file filter.