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The BBC has made its sound effects archive available to the public for free for the first time. 

The archive incorporates effects used by the corporation's radio output since the 1920s - that tallies up to a staggering 16,000 sound effects.

So you are truly in luck if you're desperately in need of the sound of a South American parrot talking and screeching, the sound of the interior of a Belgian post office (busy, of course), or the sound of an inflating rubber dinghy. 

Back in February I published a video overview of how to use Mixkit to find free b-roll video and music to use in multimedia projects. This week the folks at Mixkit added sound effects to their library of free media. The sound effects library is separate from the music library in Mixkit. The sound effects library contains things like short clips of dogs barking, doorbell chimes, and car horns blaring. Just like with the other libraries in Mixkit, you can find sound effects by conducting a keyword search or by just browsing through the content tags.