The Online Books Page

Nature sounds

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• Bioacoustics
• Sounds

• Animal sounds

• Natural sounds

• Oink! Moo! How Do You Do? A Book of Animal Sounds, by Grace Maccarone, illust. by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Tale of Bobby Bobolink (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Arthur Scott Bailey (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Songs of the Birds (London: J. Lane, 1922), by Walter Garstang, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the Birds (second edition, revised and enlarged; London: J. Lane, 1923), by Walter Garstang, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Species Limits in the Indigobirds (Ploceidae, Vidua) of West Africa: Mouth Mimicry, Song Mimicry, and Description of New Species (1982), by Robert B. Payne (PDF at Michigan)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Engaging with Everyday Sounds (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Marcel Cobussen (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Emily Wilbourne and Suzanne G. Cusick (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Perception and Communication (New York: Pergamon Press, Macmillan, c1958), by Donald E. Broadbent (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders (partial serial archives)

• The Measurement of Sensory Thresholds in Exceptional Children: An Experimental Approach to Some Problems of Differential Diagnosis and Education With Special Reference to Hearing (Cooperative research project #418; Houston: University of Houston, 1960), by Lee Meyerson and John L. Michael (page images at HathiTrust)

• Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound (2007), ed. by Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Advancing Electromyographic Continuous Speech Recognition: Signal Preprocessing and Modeling (dissertation; Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing, 2014), by Michael Wand (PDF with commentary at kit.edu)
• Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines (1994), ed. by David B. Roe and Jay G. Wilpon (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)
• The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide: Speech Recognition Made Fast and Simple (second edition, 2000), by Dan Newman (PDF files at sayican.com)

• Dizziness: A Resource (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v24; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2019), ed. by Ruth Anderwald, Karoline Feyertag, and Leonhard Grond (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2017), by Simon Chapman and Fiona Crichton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press and JSTOR)

• Engaging with Everyday Sounds (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Marcel Cobussen (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and Language (ca. 1900), by R. L. Garner (illustrated HTML with commentary at erbzine.com)
• The Speech of Monkeys (London: W. Heinemann, 1892), by R. L. Garner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Philosophical Amusement Upon the Language of Beasts and Birds: Written Originally in French by Father Bougeant, a Famous Jesuit, Now Confined at La Fleche, on Account of This Work (second edition corrected; London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1740), by G.-H. Bougeant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound (2007), ed. by Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• On So-called Functional Heart Murmurs (reprinted from Montreal Medical Journal, 1899), by Maude E. Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old London Street Cries; and, The Cries of To-Day, With Heaps of Quaint Cuts (London: Field and Tuer, 1885), by Andrew White Tuer (illustrated HTML at Wisconsin)

• Guide to Audio Reproduction (New York: J. F. Rider, c1953), by David Fidelman
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at worldradiohistory.com

• Sound and Music Computing (reprint of a special issue of Applied Sciences; Basel et al.: MDPI, 2018), ed. by Tapio Lokki, Stefania Serafin, Meinard Müller, and Vesa Välimäki (PDF with commentary at mdpi.com)
• Digital Sound Studies (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018), ed. by Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien (PDF at oapen.org)
• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (2006) (PDF at clir.org)

• Sound on Sound (issues of this British sound system magazine freely available online 1985-1990) (partial serial archives)
• The Audio Critic (partial serial archives)

• Gramophone (1923-) (partial serial archives)

• Vinyl Theory (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR

• History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph (reprint, originally published 1895; New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1970), by W. K.-L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recording Musician (British magazine, 1992-1993) (full serial archives)
• Home Studio Recording (British magazine; issues online 1983-1985, plus two later issues titled "Home & Studio Recording") (partial serial archives)

• Sound on Sound (issues of this British sound system magazine freely available online 1985-1990) (partial serial archives)
• Gramophone (1923-) (partial serial archives)

• Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2009), ed. by Karin Bijsterveld and José van Dijck (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Fundamentals of High Fidelity (New York: J. F. Rider, c. 1959), by Herman Burstein (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Sound of High Fidelity (Chicago: Popular Mechanics Press, c1958), by Robert Oakes Jordan and James Cunningham, illust. by David Foster, Robert Barker, and Arthur Lutz (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• High Fidelity Simplified (New York: J. F. Rider, c1952), by Harold D. Weiler (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Stereophonic Sound (New York: J. F. Rider, c1957), by Norman H. Crowhurst (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• The Art and Science of Audio Book Production (1995), by Billy R. West (HTML at loc.gov)
• How to Service Tape Recorders (New York: J. F. Rider, c1954), by C. A. Tuthill (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life (c2011), by David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett, and Maria Pini (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Deep Lab (Pittsburgh: Deep Lab and the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2014), by Addie Wagenknecht, Allison Burtch, Claire L. Evans, Denise Caruso, Harlo Holmes, Ingrid Burrington, Jillian C. York, Kate Crawford, Lindsay Howard, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Maddy Varner, Maral Pourkazemi, and Runa A. Sandvik (PDF with supplementary materials at studioforcreativeinquiry.org)