Audio search tools

To find radio stations on the web, see JNet's Radio page
For more archives, see JNet's Audio Archives  

Search engines for audio:

The best:

• Speechbot   Find radio news from 22 popular American shows.  Search by keywords
• Researchville Audio
• SingingFish Specialized tool that will help you find pictures and video. It also has a good advanced search tool that allows you to narrow your search to news and select the type of video and audio formats.

The rest:

• Find sounds
• AudioBasket   Search by keyword, by day, week or month.
• Snap.com    Fast and efficient
• Snap Power search
• AltaVista Audio finder    Click on the "Audio" button
• Scournet
• MediaBuilder
• NSA's Semantic Forests   Not for the public. but check out the patent the American National Security Agency applied for to search through transcribed speech

From archive audio pages:

• J-Net's Audio Archives Page
• Pacifica Radio Archives           The oldest collection of public radio programming and sound actualities in the United States.
• CBC Radio News Documentaries       Archives of several feature length documentaries from CBC's World at Six program
• CBC Radio Headlines    Printed archives of the hourly newscasts

From archive video companies:

• FootageNet         Search many US and international databases. Click here for their vast search page
  

From TV networks (sound and pictures):

• CNN Image Search
• APTN Library    AP and WTN merge to give you a stunning visual database
• CBC News         Search for visual and audio archives back to 1998