There can be few organisations that have used more sound effects than the BBC, but did you know that that the good old British Broadcasting Corporation has made more than 33,000 of its FX available ...

The internet is now a bit more noisy. That's because audio files on social media have rediscovered an amazing fact. The BBC's vast sound effects library is open to the public. Thousands of clips can ...

Last week, OpenAI released a new AI model called Sora that could generate high-resolution video clips from text prompts. But they're all essentially clever silent films. Now ElevenLabs has added ...

Can machines come up with plausible sounds effects for video? Recently, MIT's artificial intelligence (CSAIL) lab created a sort of Turing test that fooled folks into thinking that machine-created ...

“Step into my office,” says Joanna Fang. OK, but to the untrained eye it's a kleptomaniac's hoard: rolls of Astroturf, mud and moss, wooden planks, violin bows, smashed keyboards, plastic boxes ...

From noises off to the sounds of tomorrow, composer Sarah Angliss and some of the world’s greatest effects artists celebrate 200 years of the awesome power of sound effects. Show more It’s 200 years ...