Human Sound Effects

Human sound effects and recordings – includes vocal, non-vocal and body sounds

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City Life Sound Effects Ambience Crowds Play Track 85+ sounds included, 223 mins total $79

A massive collection of crowd and ambience recordings – captured both indoors and outdoors.

Locations include an amusement park, mall, restaurant, beach, courtyard, fair, ski area, arcade hall, casino, coffe shop, convention, park, construction site, library, museum, cafe, zoo, store, theater lobby, tour boat train station – and more. From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.

There are 85 recordings included, most ambiences are 2-3 minutes in length – and there are more than 220 minutes of crowd recordings in total.

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Cloth and Fabric Sound Effects Combat Cloth Play Track 720+ sounds included $16

Combat Cloth! was recorded to enhance the sound of fighting scenes with a variety of cloth movements.

The library was recorded with a Neumann u89 (Hypercardiod) and Audient Mic Pre.
All files contain metadata to quickly find the sounds you’re looking for.

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Human Sound Effects Crowds – American Protest Play Track 154 sounds included, 138 mins total $25

After the presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016, many Americans have taken to the streets to express their opposition. This library features many chants from various crowd sizes including: “Black Lives Matter” “We reject the president elect!” “Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!” and many more. Also included are isolated crowd cheers, walla, and distant speeches.

Recordings were made on 11-12-2016 and 1-21-2017 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Microphone used: Sennheiser MKH40+30.

100% of the profits from this library will be donated to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Non-Profit organizations may utilize this library free of charge. Please contact Audio Shade directly to receive a copy after verification of organization credentials.

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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Baby Sounds Play Track 160 sounds included, 85 mins total $39

Baby Sounds library includes 160 HQ (24bit/96kHz) indoor recordings of newborn, infant, toddler laughs, sighs, screams, whimpers, giggles, and cries. All captured in real-life conditions, over a 14-month period.

Apart from the profound pre-speech vocalizations, you’ll also find cute recordings of a suckling pacifier, baby farts, breathing, breastfeeding and sneezing that will help your foleying character become more realistic and lifelike. Overall, the collection caters to projects in need for authentic newborn/ infant/ toddler boy vocal expressions.

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Human Sound Effects Babies Play Track 66+ sounds included, 11+ mins total $19

Be gentle with these babies, they’re mine. Recorded from when they were 2 weeks old and 3-6 months old. Plenty of cute and cuddly coo’s, baby talk, breaths, efforts, sighs, yawns, coughs, snorts and crying.

Lots of subtle sounds for when you just need a bit of presence from that baby onscreen.

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Environments & Ambiences Middle Eastern Ambiences Play Track 56 sounds included, 90 mins total $70

A collection of stereo urban ambiences, recorded in Cairo and Dubai, where you’ll find traffic, Arabic walla, and the Call to Prayer.

From the Spice Souk in Dubai to the back alleys of Studio Galal in Cairo, something is always moving.

The collection comes with over 50 files, ranging from 21 seconds to nearly 11 minutes in length, for a total of 90 minutes of unique ambiences to put you in the “Cradle of Civilization.”

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City Life Sound Effects Israel Life Play Track 29+ sounds included, 130 mins total $16

This audio library brings 29 crowd ambiences from several interesting places in Israel: the Jerusalem Western Wall and Holy Sepulcher, Tel Aviv’s traditional Carmel market, streets and parks, beaches and villages, and more. Recorded in May.

Library highlights:
• 29 diverse Hebrew and international speaking crowd ambiences
• recorded with a Sony PCM-D100
• 96 kHz / 24 bit high resolution
• each track lasts for 3-6 minutes
• exclusively on A Sound Effect

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Human Sound Effects Oh Baby! Superpack Play Track 175 sounds included, 82 mins total $109

From newborns to toddlers, this sound effect library gets you 175 recordings of the cutest babies you will ever find, captured in 24bit/96khz. It features all-original recordings, and gets you sounds such as baby and toddler grunts, burps, whines, coughs, excited screams, giggles, gurgles, laughs, sneezes, babbling, talking, coos, breathing, hiccups, snoring, vocalizations, exclamations and much more. From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.

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Human Sound Effects Crowds & Applause: Small to Medium Play Track 85 sounds included $36.30

This library features crowds from 4 to 800 people. The highlight surely is very rare to come by recordings from inside a cinema (crowd chatting, leaving, afterparty, cueing, and clapping for the movie at the premiere). But with this library, you get lots of interior and exterior recordings of applause (in churches, at concerts, performances & press conferences.
Also, there is quite a lot of walla. Mostly in German language, there is also lots of indistinct talking that can be placed in any background.

Most of these recordings were performed with a matched pair of Earthworks QTC50 on a stand in ab configuration, so they have a very nice stereo image and no movement during the takes.

Some recordings feature hard to recreate crowd sounds like laughing, or camera clicking (motors) at a press confrerence, clearing throats, children applauding or playing or multiple feet walking. There is also a recording of a theatre / opera rehearsal on stage (no singing).

I had planned a bigger crowds library, but due to Corona, my recordings in music stadiums & at sporting events got canceled. If If I record and release them at a later point, you will get them at a discount when you bought this library. I thought I release it anyway, as many editors can’t record crowd atmos and loop group atm.

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City Life Sound Effects Walla Volume 4 Play Track 200 sounds included $25

Walla Volume 4 features 200 ambience length sound effects that capture the unmistakable background murmur from crowds. Featured in this collection are airports, bars, pubs, conventions, lobbies, halls, schools, malls, offices, theaters and more! A total of more than 8 hours of recordings are included. All sound effects have been hand-picked from the Sound Ideas Walla, Series 15,000, Background Trax, Mike McDonough Crowds and Applause, General HD 1 and Premiere Edition libraries.

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Human Sound Effects Essentials 09 – Heartbeat Play Track 50 sounds included $10

Low-price. High-quality. Essential.

A collection of 50 heartbeat sounds, including various regular and fast heart-racing loops of different types.

The sounds are fully compatible with the Universal Category System (UCS) – a public domain initiative establishing a standardized category list for the classification of sound effects.

Note: All of these sounds (and more!) are included in the 96 General Library (get 3,000+ SFX for FREE!)

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Horror Sound Effects Scream Collection Play Track 441 sounds included $25

Introducing the Scream Collection (A Tribute To Wilhelm). This library pays homage to the infamous Wilhelm Scream first heard in the film Distant Drums as well as dozens, if not hundreds, of other films. This compilation includes 441 vocal effects ranging from startled gasps to all out screams.

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World Sounds Spanish Voices, Crowds & Reactions Play Track 46 sounds included, 60 mins total $25

SPANISH VOICES, CROWDS & REACTIONS contains a great collection of ambiences recorded in public bars, cafes, restaurants, theaters, and other public places around Spain. It also include several recordings films wildtracks, used in several productions.

Bars, Restaurants, shops, crowds, reactions – recorded exclusively for real projects. Now you have the chance to get them together in a great pack!

How many times have you look for these kinds of files and they have English voices? Now you will have this high quality files recorded in Spain with Spanish voices.

Another way to get this library: Also included in the Surround Sound LAB Complete Bundle, featuring 25+ SFX libraries at a huge discount.

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Foley Sound Effects Character Pack 01: Humanoid Play Track 2338+ sounds included $82.50
The Character Pack 01: Humanoid contains nearly 5 hours (2338 files) of high quality body (falls, impacts & lands), multiple surface type texture layers, footsteps, armour movements and 4 types of vocalisation sets.
Everything needed to bring a humanoid (Human male, Goblin, Ogre & Skeleton) character to life.

The assets have been designed for use with computer game media that demands high asset variations, however this pack is suited for all forms of audio media.

The included basic construction kit / original recordings enables further details to be created for more granular focus.

All assets have been recorded & produced at 96kHz/24bit.

This pack contains 7 of our humanoid related individual SFX mini packs (Footstep, Body, Armour & 4 vocal sets)
Included in this pack:

Individual Designed assets: Body Fall, Body Lands Body Impacts, Footsteps, Armour Movements & 4 vocalisation exertion types. (including an human male narrator and dialogue)

Armour types included Chain-mail, Cloth, Leather, No Armour & Segmented

Surface types included: Concrete, Grass, Gravel, Leaves, Metal, Pebbles, Rock, Sand, Snow, Undergrowth, Wood & Water

All individual designed asset are also packaged up into single files aiding SFX creation and editing.

Basic construction kits of the original content recording with 2 microphone versions (where available, Note: not all CK content has 2 mic recordings)
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Environments & Ambiences Footsteps Snow Play Track 45 sounds included, 25 mins total $54

A footstep library built from long walks in cold and snowy conditions. Recorded in a remote, deserted Swedish forest, miles away from the nearest road.

Different types of snow and boots were recorded as well as different paces:

• Crusty
• Thin/hard packed
• Deep
• Frozen stairs and porches
• Stomps/scuffs
• Sneakers
• Leather boots
• Kamiks

Each track is easy to edit into multiple single footsteps for sweetening your tracks with real snow.

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Human Sound Effects Human Body Play Track 61 sounds included, 101 mins total From: $40

The human body is continuously make noise. From the sound of the heart pumping, air entering & exiting the lungs, digestion in the stomach and blood circulating through the body. This library features an extensive collection of all these elements, made possible through the creation of a stethoscope microphone.

All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6, a stereo pair of DPA 4060’s and a professional grade stethoscope.

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Foley Sound Effects Medical Play Track 52 sounds included $25

The Audio Medical collection features 52 professionally recorded sound effects, ready for use in your productions. Included in this library are heart monitors, respirators, hospital beds, blood pressure meters, MRI machines and much more! These sounds are all hand-picked from the Sound Ideas General HD and Series 6000 libraries.

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Environments & Ambiences Christmas Play Track 165+ sounds included $17.40

Christmas time. The time of the year everybody calms down and settles. The period is also dominated by a lot of festivities, shopping and winter actions.
To bring you the christmas cheer, this library includes a broad variety of musical instruments, city ambiences, foleys and ready to use scenes.
Merry christmas!

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Cloth and Fabric Sound Effects Armour Pack 01: Humanoid Play Track 266+ sounds included $33.33
The Armour Pack 01: Humanoid contains over 45 minutes (250 files) of nothing but high quality medieval types of armour movement actions for an humanoid entity.

The assets have been designed for use with computer game media that demands high asset variations, however this pack is suited for all forms of audio media.

The included basic construction kit / original recordings enables further armour details to be created for more granular focus.

All assets have been recorded & produced at 96kHz/24bit.
Included in this pack:
- Individual armour designed assets (30 per armour type / action type)
- Sets of individual armour designed assets (30 individual assets in one file)
- Continuous loops of different armour speeds (these have been created in sync for the loops in our Footstep Pack 01: Humanoid)
- Armour Types: Leather, Cloth, Chain-mail, Segmented.
- Basic construction kits of the original recording
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Human Sound Effects Protesting People Play Track 26 sounds included $25

Protesting People is a small collection of 26 ambiences recorded in Sofia (Bulgaria) tracking in 3 different days a peaceful protest to protect nature and forests from construction. This library will take you to the middle of 7,000-10000 crowds of people protecting nature. You can hear a lot of people and unrecognizable speech, the noise of a variety of instruments such as whistles, drums and others used in similar events. Moving streak in streets, whistling people and chanting OSTAVKA (Resignation) and MAFIA. This library can be used for any kind of projects in need of a protesting crowd from Eastern Europe

Gear used:Edirol R4-pro and Neumann KM184 stereo set . All files are meta-tagged in Soundminer

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Human Sound Effects AFL Football Crowds Play Track 53 sounds included, 65 mins total $45

Australian Rules Football or AFL is one of the most popular sports in Australia – and the crowds are incredibly enthusiastic. This library of football sports crowds was recorded at a major stadium from various perspectives – from being a part of the mob where you can hear individual voices, all the way to top level where the cheers become a massive roar of thousands of voices.

With over an hour of content, this should have all the moments and perspectives that you need. There’s elated cheers, boos, gasps, chants and everything in between. There’s even some swearing – but don’t worry, that’s in a clearly marked folder and tagged in the metadata so that you can filter those files out if you need it to be family friendly. Plus for when you need to hit the ground running, there’s a 6 minute loop-able ambience punctuated with both highs and lows.

To top it all off there’s some recordings of crowd ambiences around the venue, including hallways, turnstiles and even outside the stadium. Lastly there’s my personal favourite: several recordings of the iconic AFL siren.

This is a great package filled with authentic Australian accents audible in the close up recordings – but in the middle and far perspectives all those voices becomes a massive wash that will blend nicely with other crowd libraries from any other sport and country.

Photo by Michael Spencer.
Used under a Creative Commons 4.0 license. (Modified with colour grade, crop and text.)

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Environments & Ambiences Athens & Crete Play Track 75+ sounds included, 400 mins total $40

From bustling Athenian markets to the rocky Mediterranean coast, this library is a great snapshot of what Greece sounds like. Essentially it’s two very different libraries in one really useful package!

Athens
This historic city sounds old and it sounds new. Busy markets and crowds fill the streets beneath the Acropolis, while a few blocks away the city is alive with busy traffic and eurocentric motorbikes.

We captured street buskers, back alley murmurs, bustling city squares, markets, heavy traffic, skylines and even a religious sermon!

Crete
Nature dominates here and we got our ankles wet recording all she has to offer. Big surf, coves and gurgling rock pools. Mountain goats, crows, roosters and an early dawn chorus. Insects of the Agia Erini Gorge – more Cicadas than you can shake a stick at!

Whether it’s Game of Thrones or the next Bourne film, this beast will help bring your locations to life!

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Central America – City Life Play Track 71 sounds included, 456 mins total From: $69

City Life: Central America is a collection of sounds captured across 3 Central American countries: Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

This library focus is on city atmosphere, especially in street/cover markets, pedestrian areas, parks, and many more.

The sounds captured in Mexico show a more “modern” Spanish atmosphere, compared to the more “traditional” Maya’s markets of Guatemala, where people speak a mix of Spanish and k’iche'(traditional Mayan language used in some parts of Guatemala)

For the 3 countries we visited a large amount of cities (x10) to capture the exceptional urban soundscapes of Central America.

The record duration are around 6:00 min per take. For the cities, we used a discreet setup: Sennheiser AMBEO and an AB stereo setup with x2 Sennheiser MKH 8040.

Each sound recording are located with GPS coordinates and full soundminer metadata.

The Sennheiser AMBEO is an ambisonic microphone, than can be decode in many differents formats (binaural, 7.1, 5.1, stéréo, mono, etc…) for decode it you can use the Harpex plugin or the free Soundfield/Rodes plugin.

-The Full sound bank (Stereo + Surround/Ambisonic) contains 71 sound takes record in 24/96khZ and decline in 267 files

-The stereo sound bank contains only the stereo files (119 files).

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Human Sound Effects Fifty Shades of Brown Play Track 50 sounds included $10

Looking for real fart sounds? ‘Fifty Shades Of Brown’ by WW Audio features 50 disgusting, comedic, and 100% genuine real farts. Great for comedy, pantomimes, or any time your project simply calls for a bit of flatulence.

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Human sound effects libraries

Need the sound of people in a wide range of settings - from large and small crowds, lively audiences, quiet groups of people, human reactions and exclamations, and walla in many different locations, to single character voices, Foley-style movement and interaction sounds, kids and adult vocalizations & emotes, as well as burps, farts & other body sounds? These human sound effects libraries give you an excellent arsenal of sounds to work with.

Recorded around the world, these human sound libraries deliver a varied selection of sounds that will seamlessly blend into your game or film's soundscape and bring it to life.

Human sounds commonly found in this category:

Applause, burp, cough, giggle, groan, hiccup, hum, laugh, murmur, scream, sigh, sing, slurp, sniff, snore, sob, whisper, woohoo, yawn, yell

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Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.

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Animal Sound Effects Animal Hyperrealism Vol III Play Track 1711 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$180

Animal Hyperrealism Vol III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.

The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.

The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free: This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.

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Firearms Sound Effects Urban Environment Guns – FIBUA – Fighting In Built-Up Area Play Track 218+ sounds included, 226 mins total $199

Audiobeast is proud to present our second sample library; the only library of its kind to focus entirely on weapons being fired in urban environments! For this recording session we were given access to a military training site known as a FIBUA (Fighting In Built-Up Area) consisting of streets with a variety of buildings, vehicles, and exclusive permission to fire weapons in several locations. Pictures of the street and gas station locations and firing points are included.

The aim of this library was to offer the slapback type tails needed for gun sound design for convincing city scenes in film, games and tv production. It’s always been difficult to find gun recordings in a city environment so we hope this library helps sound people everywhere.

This Library contains over 3 GBs of weapons being fired in multiple urban environments, a street, outside of a gas station and inside of a tower block. 218 WAV files of single shots, bursts and many with multiple takes, all recorded at 96 khz 24 bit, with heaps of information on microphones used and distance from the firearms.

Various distances were captured, from the DPA4062 on the guns themselves, to the distant other end of the street 100 metres away. To add, some mics were positioned around corners, a nearby graveyard, through walls and in armored vehicles to capture a variety of perspectives.

Minimal cleanup on the recordings was carried out very carefully so as not to introduce any artefacts into the recordings, they are presented as raw as possible.

If you need a wider selection of interior gun recordings please check out our first library – The London Warehouse Firearms library

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Weather Sound Effects Florida Thunder Play Track 500+ sounds included, 300 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$49

Florida Thunder by Eric Berzins contains 111 distinct wav files with over 200 dry thunderclaps and over 300 thunderclaps with rain. All files were recorded in the US state of Florida between 2021 and 2025. Florida has more lightning strikes than any other U.S. state! All files have been meticulously edited and cleaned, and have embedded UCS-compliant Soundminer metadata.

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Animal Sound Effects Collections Animal Hyperrealism Vol I Play Track 290+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$180

Animal Hyperrealism Vol I is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1300 individual sounds in 290 files.

The sounds were partly recorded with animals trained for media production, partly recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: african lions, bengal tigers, horses, donkeys, cows, exotic birds, owls, bobcats, pumas, dromedaries, wolves, dogs, geese, lemurs, gibbons and many more.

All the content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image. All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these four mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.

The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free: This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.

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