Practice listening to these conversations. Each one has a transcript to read if you have trouble hearing the words.
VIDEOS, SLOW, WITH SUBTITLES
2,600 shows: youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish
MP3, NORMAL SPEED, WITH TRANSCRIPTS
Terry Gross - US English, radio shows. Click any link below. You will reach a new page with a ►triangle at the top. Click the ►triangle to listen, or click "Download" to save it and listen later. You can also print or save the transcript. There may be a short advertisement in the sound, before the transcript starts. Then the Interview and transcript start:
These are large files: about 1 megabyte per minute of audio file.
CURRENT EVENTS
MUSIC
OTHER ARTS
COMEDY
SCIENCE
POLITICS
POLITICIANS
MORE TERRY GROSS RADIO SHOWS (most do not have transcripts)
These are large files: about 1 megabyte per minute of audio file.
CURRENT EVENTS
- storyId=165272652 Mumbai, India, Katherine Boo - 13 minutes
- 2017/06/13/532594281/journalist-ventured-behind-the-lines-of-jihad-to-interview-the-worlds-most-wante - 36 minutes
- 2017/04/17/524348264/largely-forgotten-osage-murders-reveal-a-conspiracy-against-wealthy-native-ameri - 37 minutes
- storyId=535757103 American Muslim memoir, Haroon Moghul - 36 minutes
- storyId=533515895 memoir of trying to reduce weight - 44 minutes
- storyId=511507434 rich people ready to survive chaos- 43 minutes
- 2017/07/05/535626109/the-end-of-loyalty-and-the-decline-of-good-jobs-in-america -25 minutes
- storyId=526655831 Racial segregation in USA - 35 minutes
- 2016/12/14/505547295/fake-news-expert-on-how-false-stories-spread-and-why-people-believe-them - 36 minutes
MUSIC
- 2017/06/30/534878830/nigerian-drummer-tony-allen-revisits-his-jazz-roots-in-a-salute-to-art-blakey - 6 minutes
- 2017/07/14/537035178/ode-to-billie-joe-was-a-surprise-hit-that-prompted-dozens-of-jazz-versions - 8 minutes
- 2017/07/28/539989187/an-archival-interview-with-ray-manzarek-keyboardist-for-the-doors - 11 minutes
- 2017/06/02/531230288/fresh-air-interviews-with-beatles-ringo-starr-and-paul-mccartney Beatles - 38 minutes
- 2017/07/04/534883348/50-years-later-producer-remixes-sgt-pepper-to-bring-it-into-the-modern-world - 44 minutes
- 2017/07/03/534887214/rhiannon-giddens-speaks-for-the-silenced - 37minutes
- storyId=131334322 Rap musician Jay-Z - 45 minutes
- 2017/07/28/539997870/for-jazz-pianist-dave-frishberg-music-and-wit-go-hand-in-hand - 28 minutes
OTHER ARTS
- storyId=538609475 On Jane Austen - 6 minutes
- 2017/07/18/537916519/film-and-notfilm-showcase-the-collaboration-of-buster-keaton-and-samuel-beckett - 7
- storyId=529820189 6 books - 9 minutes
- 2017/07/20/538319066/fresh-air-remembers-oscar-award-winning-actor-martin-landau 17 minutes
- storyId=531735345 Arctic+Antarctic photographer Paul Nicklen - 44 minutesminutes
- storyId=536434340 Ballet dancer Wendy Whelan - 36 minutes
COMEDY
- storyId=528936208 Indian-American comedian Hasan Minhaj - 43 minutes
- storyId=530810011 Comedian David Sedaris - 43 minutes
SCIENCE
- 2017/07/24/539005688/inside-the-global-seed-vault-where-the-history-and-future-of-agriculture-is-stor - 35 minutes
- 2017/07/26/539520353/looking-back-at-the-most-powerful-earthquake-ever-to-strike-north-america - 32 minutes
- 2017/06/22/533951389/experts-suspect-russia-is-using-ukraine-as-a-cyberwar-testing-ground - 34 minutes
- storyId=541124579 Al Gore on climate change - 43 minutes
- 2017/06/29/534868012/what-happens-when-the-heroin-epidemic-hits-small-town-America - 25 minutes
POLITICS
- 2017/07/20/538312605/the-insecurity-of-americas-old-and-underfunded-voting-systems - 20 minutes
- storyId=541278161 Lobbying Congress in 1965 - 36 minutes
- 2017/07/11/536642560/is-the-justice-department-shying-away-from-to-prosecuting-corporations - 37 minutes
- storyId=533711528 US government plans for continuity after major attack - 37 minutes
- 2016/02/02/465257993/who-are-americas-homegrown-terrorists - 37 minutes
POLITICIANS
- 2016/03/17/470806232/opening-the-books-on-donald-trumps-business-deals-in-atlantic-city - 34 minutes
- 2017/02/02/513041005/exploring-the-nationalistic-and-christian-right-influences-on-trump - 43 minutes
- wlrn.org/post/how-white-nationalist-groups-found-their-candidate-donald-trump - 39 minutes (18 megabytes)
- storyId=537885042 Trump+Bannon - 37 minutes
- storyId=321313477 Hillary Clinton, 2014 - 44 minutes
MORE TERRY GROSS RADIO SHOWS (most do not have transcripts)
US President Eisenhower
Most famous speech to nation, 17 January 1961, warning about military-industrial power:
More Speeches
A large collection lets you click on PDF to see the text, and MP3 to hear the speech:
United States Supreme Court - US English
Bill Moyers - US English
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio New Zealand
World Health Organization - British English
Business Management - British English
British Library
BBC
US President Eisenhower
Most famous speech to nation, 17 January 1961, warning about military-industrial power:
- Audio and text: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address_(audio_transcript)
- Video, click CC at bottom of video to see text too: youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU
More Speeches
A large collection lets you click on PDF to see the text, and MP3 to hear the speech:
United States Supreme Court - US English
- Oral discussions and transcripts 1955-present. Beautiful presentation highlights each paragraph in yellow, while it is spoken. In the left column, choose the year, or "View by: Issue". Click the title of the case, and "Oral Argument" will appear in the left column for cases from 1955 to last year. Click those words, then click the black triangle to start the recording. You can also read the opinions to find who won and why.
- Opinions by the court, deciding each case
- Summaries: Click the title of any case. Also shows dates when decided, argued, and permission to appeal was granted.
- For Australian, Canadian and British courts, see videos below
Bill Moyers - US English
- 155 television shows: April 25, 2007-April 30, 2010: transcripts, and MP3, also has video
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- 10-30 minutes each: abc.net.au/transcripts/ or abc.net.au/radionational/transcripts/
Radio New Zealand
- 3 to 40 minutes: radionz.co.nz/search/results?utf8=✓&q=transcript&commit=Search
World Health Organization - British English
- about 10 minutes each: who.int/mediacentre/multimedia/podcasts/en/
Business Management - British English
- about 5 minutes each emeraldpublishing.co.uk/learning/podcasts/index.htm?cat=2
British Library
- Six talks on religion, about 10 minutes each: bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/sacred/audiocuratorschoice.html
BBC
- "In Touch" most shows since 30 May 2017: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxww/broadcasts/2017/06
- Assange: news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9309000/9309320.stm
US President Eisenhower
- Most famous speech to nation, 17 January 1961, warning about military-industrial power:
- Audio and text: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address_(audio_transcript)
- Video, click CC at bottom of video to see text too: youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU
VIDEOS, NORMAL SPEED, WITH TRANSCRIPTS
Thousands of subjects
Courts
Indian voices
Tavis Smiley + Amy Goodman
Obama
Professors and others
Audiobooks and others
- Ted.com with transcripts and subtitles
Courts
- Australia High Court hcourt.gov.au/cases/recent-av-recordings
- Canada Supreme Court has videos without transcripts:
scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/webcasts-webdiffusions-eng.aspx - United Kingdom Supreme Court has videos without transcripts (type "watch" in the search box): https://www.supremecourt.uk/decided-cases/index.html#addsearch=watch,f=1
Indian voices
- 19 videos: ndtv.com/topic/full-transcript
Tavis Smiley + Amy Goodman
- pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/democracy-now-host-amy-goodman/
- pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/journalist-author-amy-goodman/
Obama
- npr.org/2016/12/19/504998487/transcript-and-video-nprs-exit-interview-with-president-Obama
- bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33646542
Professors and others
Audiobooks and others