FindSounds.com provides state-of-the-art access to audio files on the Web. See Sound Types for a list of the types of sounds you can find.

You can enter one or more keywords to perform a text search. Because song and speech recordings are excluded from the FindSounds.com index, when you type elephant, you get elephant sounds, and not songs about elephants (for example, The Baby Elephant Walk) or people speaking about elephants.

For any given sound, you can automatically find similar sounds using the Comparisonics® sound-matching technology. The given sound may be an audio file retrieved by FindSounds.com. To find sounds like it, click on the nearby button:

The Comparisonics Audio Player allows you to use your own sounds in a search. With this free program, you can open any audio file on your computer, select a sound in the waveform display, and search for similar sounds on the Web through FindSounds.com. By recording your own sounds, you can mimic a desired sound and find the best matches on the Web.

For each search, you may designate which audio file formats you are interested in, and specify the desired number of channels and minimum resolution and sample rate of retrieved audio files. You can even limit the size of retrieved files — an important feature for people with slow modem connections.

The Comparisonics waveform display provides valuable visual information about the contents of each audio file.

FindSounds.com is suitable for all ages. Audio files containing obscenities are filtered out, making the site safe for children.

With search capabilities of exceptional power, and an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, FindSounds.com is the best place to find sounds!