mp3 audio files representing A through Z in the alphabet and numbers 0 through 10

First published on August 12, 2007

When I was making the newest version of my anti-spam plugin, I needed individual sound files representing each of the letters of the alphabet (A through Z) and the numbers 0 through 9 (the story is explained here). Unfortunately, my Google search came up empty, so I had to create some audio files myself. Yes, it felt nerdy, but what’s done is done and hopefully I can save someone the time to record such files (whatever your purpose). You can download a zip file of a.mp3 through z.mp3 and 0.mp3 through 10.mp3 (recently added the number ten) that say the following:

A for apple
B for baseball
C for clock
D for donkey
E for elephant
F for father
G for grandmother
H for hungry
I for Internet
J for justice
K for kangaroo
L for London
M for money
N for Norway
O for overtime
P for pillow
Q for question
R for rabbit
S for superman
T for telephone
U for underwear
V for vaccinate
W for World Wide Web
X for xylophone
Y for yogurt
Z for zebra

Zero
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten

Download the mp3 files

Download only the letters

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26 Responses to “mp3 audio files representing A through Z in the alphabet and numbers 0 through 10”

November 22nd, 2007 at 1:12 am
Fed Nolasco says:

Thank you very much for these audio files. I thought my search in Google would be hopeless.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Charles Stewart says:

Two things:
– what license are you distributing your stuff under?
– Three of the sound files, for the letters A-C are truncated, missing out part of the final word.

It’s kind of surprising how little material like this is freely available, so kudos to you!
July 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Peter says:

Hi Charles,

I can’t reproduce the A-C problem. When I play the files I hear the full "apple" "baseball" and "clock". I’ll see if I get around to re-recording them with a bit of extra silent padding at the end but I can’t guarantee that I will.

I never even considered licensing for this stuff. For now, you have my permission to use it in any way you want, with or without attribution.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Kevin says:

Thank You…. Even though I am not using these sounds for anti-spam, I needed these for a little program I am making for my son and daughter to learn letters and spelling .. (i really don not have a recordable voice )
February 26th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Weldon B Cabaniss Jr says:

Good. Thank you. But I need numbers 1 thru 99, and agree with you that it is nerdy to record them. My purpose is this: my auto mp3 player does not display track numbers of books I am hearing, and I would insert the number files before each track file to help me "keep track" of where I am. I guess an alternative is to insert two digits ("one" "six" for sixteen).
August 4th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Dave says:

Great resource, but a pity you didn’t use the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet for the letters. Would have made it more widely applicable.
October 4th, 2009 at 8:22 am
smithy says:

hey, thanks very much! didnt think i’d find this!
February 8th, 2010 at 4:25 am
Chris Woodford says:

Hello Peter

Your spoken numbers were just the thing I was looking for. However when I try to use Matlab mp3read on any of the downloaded files e.g Y = mp3read(’1.mp3′); I receive the error message ‘Error while decoding file. File may be corrupted’ . I have tried the routine on another mp3 file and that works OK. Any advice you have to offer would be much appreciated.
February 9th, 2010 at 3:32 am
Chris Woodford says:

Further to my original message. I can confirm that the error disappears with a more recent version of mp3read supplied by Dan Ellis.
May 10th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Abhishek Sainani says:

Thanks a lot buddy !! You’re a savior !!
February 5th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Daniel M says:

Thanks for sharing those!
I’m using them for learning the Morse alphabet with Anki, http://ankisrs.net/ — I’ve found an existing set of questions with the Morse sounds recorded, and wanted to add sounds for the letters too, so I can practice without looking.
Sadly, I had to remove the words after each letter, they were distracting.

Reply from Peter: Cool. Feel free to post or send me the edited recordings that have only the letters, so I can share it with anyone else who could benefit from it.
February 7th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Daniel M says:

This is it:

http://dl.transfer.ro/only_letters-transfer_RO-07feb-2eaa0f.zip

but don’t expect much: in most files you can hear the start of the f in "for".

They worked for me, anyway, I can now recognize morse sounds.

Reply from Peter: Thanks! I’ve also posted it here in case the link above expires.
February 14th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
mdfgf says:

thx so much
April 13th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Eric says:

Thanks a lot … putting together a test system and this will allow us to speak the addresses in HEX before we have our actual sounds – how much fun!
April 13th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Eric says:

OK, now I have to comment again because the webpage jumps … hope I’ll land on the letters this time!

Reply from Peter: The link to the letters plus words is here: http://www.theblog.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/alphabetmp3s.zip
The link to the letters only is here: http://www.theblog.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/only_letters-transfer_RO-07feb-2eaa0f.zip
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:15 am
Michelle says:

Thank you. This is very useful to my project
October 17th, 2011 at 3:05 am
Papatita says:

Thank You,

I have downloaded several months ago and made the program was originally for my son and then uploaded to android market. check here: http://lm4.us/26v
November 5th, 2011 at 6:52 am
BILD says:

thx for posting….trying to get an elearning channel going on YouTube and used your letters in a YouTube vid…we will be using our own recordings eventually but just needed something to get a pilot going. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoCoSmIMTV4

Thank you.
February 7th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
stell says:

thanks
May 9th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
zeenith says:

Thank you sooooooo much – I have been trying to figure out a way to teach my daughter to learn the letters by looking at them and not by the alphabet song so I tried making something and needed the audio for each letter and this is the first thing I found: THANK YOU AGAIN – MUCH APPRECIATED!
July 9th, 2012 at 6:59 am
Mike says:

Thanks for posting these. I’m planning to write my own version of the n-back brain exercise game, and needed a set of these. This will save me the time of recording them myself.
August 6th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
chumz says:

thank you very much.. this is really really really really helpful, you’re actually a savior. i am currently developing an android tutorial for kids as a school project and this saves me a lot of time.. im soooooooo thankful.. thank you soo much..
October 14th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
T McCoy says:

thanks
November 20th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Mukul says:

Thanks for all that. Can you tell me what software/tool did you use to make those files. I need to make some modifications.

Reply from Peter: I used the Sound Recorder program that comes free with Windows. I think at the time it recorded to .wav files and then I converted to mp3 using a free program called Audacity. You might be able to record directly with Audacity.
January 3rd, 2013 at 5:16 am
Arjun says:

Thanks man U saved me a lot of time ….:)
May 6th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
Jennifer Abner says:

i’d like to thank you. this is so very helpful for my program that i am doing right now.. thank you so much