From the Mac startup chime to the dial-up modem handshake, the past few decades have generated some unforgettable sound ...

Walk into one in Punta Cana, San Juan, or Cancún, and before you even see the poker tables or slot machines, you hear the ...

There can be few organisations that have used more sound effects than the BBC, but did you know that that the good old British Broadcasting Corporation has made more than 33,000 of its FX available ...

The BBC's vast sound effects library is open to the public. Thousands of clips can be downloaded for free, so people have been pulling out all kinds of weird sounds. NPR's Chloe Veltman did, too.