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"The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is a collection of nearly 1.8 million words of transcribed speech (almost 200 hours of recordings) from the University of Michigan (U-M) in Ann Arbor, created by researchers and students at the U-M English Language Institute (ELI). MICASE contains data from a wide range of speech events (including lectures, classroom discussions, lab sections, seminars, and advising sessions) and locations across the university."

In case any of you are interested in corpus-informed research/applications -- this corpus also allows you to listen to the original recordings which were transcribed. Could be useful listening material for teaching.

"Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments" from the British Library collection. If you're outside the UK, copyright limits this to 22,500 items. Still, some great recordings here.