Oral History: Oral History Tools

Share and capture sounds in seconds or upload audio you’ve already created. Publish to social networks or embed your sounds on your site.

– “channels new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, and discusses that work, and encourages more. Transom is a performance space, an open editorial session, an audition stage, a library, and a hangout.”

Allows users to post work online and connect with other media makers.

Created by the Baylor Institute for Oral History

Provided by the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki

Express Scribe is professional audio player software for PC designed to aid transcription of audio recordings. The free version supports most common audio formats including wav, mp3, wma, Aif and Dct, and does not expire.

From the University of Florida

Takes you through a series of questions to help you find the right piece of equipment for your project.

A free online service for converting files from one audio format to another.

Has good audio editing, mixing, and recording how-to’s, software and equipment reviews, and gear guides

Includes mapping tools, mobile apps, resources for indexing, audio and video editing, AR/VR, qualitative analysis, and social media tools. Created by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University

A free digital audio editing program allowing one to edit and split audio files.

An open source oral history database tool built an alternative to transcription. This free, open source software allows for the archiving of digital video and audio materials, enabling oral historians to annotate, analyze, and evaluate materials in their collections.

Kind of like the “Audacity” of the video-editing world. (Windows, Linux, OS X) is

A free browser-based image-editor

A free library of all kinds of sound effects.

A huge catalog of great songs in all genres by independent artists.