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Call for talks for the “Freesound Day”, October 28th 2025
May 16th, 2025
Hi everyone!
As part of the celebrations of the 20th Anniversary of Freesound, we are organising a “Freesound Day” event that will happen on the 28th of October of 2025. The Freesound Day will include talks from members of the Freesound community and/or projects and initiatives related to Freesou...
Introducing the Broad Sound Taxonomy
April 11th, 2025
Hi freesounders,
We are happy to announce that we have just released a new feature for organising sounds in Freesound. Following recent research at the MTG, we reached to the definition of a sound taxonomy named “Broad Sound Taxonomy” (BST). That was informed from a user experiment which was car...
In 2025… Freesound turns 20!
February 17th, 2025
Dear Freesounders,
Believe it or not, Freesound is turning 20 years old in 2025! We couldn’t be prouder of what Freesound has become after all these years. Freesound numbers are growing year after year (if you have not done it yet, have a look at our last Freesound in numbers blog post), and th...
2024 in numbers
January 24th, 2025
Hi everyone,
2025 has arrived and this will be a very special year for Freesound! We will let you know soon about a number of things happening this year, but before that, it is time for the 2024 in numbers blog post. We will show some general statistics similar to those shown in previous years’ p...
Freesound in the era of generative Artificial Intelligence
June 5th, 2024
In recent years, the phrase Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become part of our everyday conversations. In particular, since the explosion of generative AI models like ChatGPT or other models that can generate high-quality audio (e.g. AudioGen, AudioLDM 2, and Stable Audio Open, which has just be...