Record Sound, Get SoundKey, Use Anywhere

Record sounds and get a unique key to them, to access from anywhere

SoundKeys are unique 6-digit alphanumeric codes that are associated with sounds you record on this website. SoundKeys can be used for anything:

• Names - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Li Xsiu, Zooey Deschanel, your name
• Places - Glouchestershire, Saint-Tropez, La Jolla
• Regional pronunciations - Nuclear, caramel
• Common foreign words - Faux pas, hoi polloi
• Brands - Versace, Dolce Cabbana
• Food - Bruschetta, schnitzel, amuse bouche
• Sounds of nature - A brook, a bird chirp
• Any sound whatsoever

How to use your SoundKey

From the more casual:

• Having a discussion on a message board about how something is pronounced?
  • Everyone gets a SoundKey and posts it in the thread.
• Your car is making some weird noise and you want to ask uncle Bob in New York what it might be?
  • Get a SoundKey and send it to him via email or IM
• Going to an Italian restaurant on a first date?
  • Hear how the different foods are pronounced so you can order properly and not look bad in front of your date.

To the more formal:

• Record your name
  • To make sure future business contacts know how to pronounce it .
• Find out how to properly pronounce the names of important people you interact with
  • Potential customers or clients
  • Colleagues in remote offices
  • Your new teachers or new students.
  • Your new doctor or new patient.
• Add a SoundKey to a book or magazine article
  • So your readers can hear what that part of the passage sounds like (e.g. running brook)

• Record a sound
• Browse existing sounds
• For examples of how you can use SoundKeys today, see SoundKeys in Action.

Think of soundkey.com, in a way, as Flickr for sounds, or YouTube for sounds.