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An Open Audio Archive

The complete open atlas of spoken‑word audio, in 84 languages.

A typographic map of every catalog we index — find the audiobook, lecture, sermon, or podcast for your language in seconds, not scrolls.

47.8M sessions in 2024 →

Index

Eighty‑four languages, indexed by region and family.

Every catalog is searchable by narrator, author, runtime, and subject. The four regions below cover all 84.

01

Europe & the Slavic world

The archive's deepest bench — where MP3Slovo began, in 2014, between two university libraries in Prague.

  • English42,180 titles
  • Czech18,640 titles
  • German11,920 titles
  • French9,470 titles
  • Spanish8,310 titles
  • Italian5,840 titles
  • Polish4,220 titles
  • Dutch3,180 titles
  • Swedish2,910 titles
  • Russian2,640 titles
  • Ukrainian1,820 titles
  • Romanian1,260 titles
  • Hungarian980 titles
  • Greek740 titles
  • Slovak710 titles
  • Serbian640 titles
  • Croatian580 titles
  • Catalan420 titles
  • Lithuanian310 titles
  • Slovenian270 titles
  • Bulgarian240 titles
  • Finnish220 titles
  • Danish180 titles
  • Norwegian160 titles
02

Asia & the Pacific

From Sanskrit lectures to Tagalog sermons — the widest linguistic spread on the archive.

  • Mandarin Chinese7,410 titles
  • Hindi5,230 titles
  • Japanese4,860 titles
  • Korean3,420 titles
  • Tamil2,180 titles
  • Bengali1,940 titles
  • Vietnamese1,720 titles
  • Indonesian1,540 titles
  • Thai1,210 titles
  • Urdu980 titles
  • Tagalog860 titles
  • Marathi740 titles
  • Telugu610 titles
  • Malay540 titles
  • Burmese320 titles
  • Khmer280 titles
  • Sinhala210 titles
  • Lao140 titles
  • Mongolian110 titles
  • Nepali90 titles
  • Javanese80 titles
03

Africa & the Atlantic

Where the archive does some of its quietest, most necessary preservation work.

  • Arabic6,810 titles
  • Swahili1,420 titles
  • Yoruba820 titles
  • Amharic640 titles
  • Hausa580 titles
  • Zulu410 titles
  • Igbo370 titles
  • Somali310 titles
  • Oromo240 titles
  • Shona180 titles
  • Wolof120 titles
  • Tigrinya90 titles
  • Malagasy80 titles
  • Afrikaans70 titles
04

The Americas & constructed languages

Indigenous oral traditions, Portuguese variants, and Esperanto for the curious.

  • Portuguese (BR)4,940 titles
  • Portuguese (PT)2,310 titles
  • Quechua180 titles
  • Guarani140 titles
  • Nahuatl90 titles
  • Mapudungun60 titles
  • Inuktitut40 titles
  • Cherokee30 titles
  • Esperanto820 titles
  • Latin410 titles

Preservation

Thirty‑one languages the commercial audiobook market has abandoned.

Of the 84 languages indexed, 31 hold fewer than 5,000 active audiobook titles anywhere else online. MP3Slovo preserves them deliberately — for language learners, for diaspora listeners, for the next generation of speakers.

An elder Tatar listener with a portable radio

Featured preservation

Tatar — 1,840 titles, nowhere else online

A Turkic language spoken by roughly five million people across Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and the Siberian diaspora. The MP3Slovo catalog includes the only open archive of Tatar-language poetry readings, Islamic sermons, and Soviet-era radio drama recordings — much of it submitted directly by listeners through the For Creators portal.

Open the Tatar catalog →

Under 5,000 titles online

Welsh — 1,210 titles

Medieval bardic poetry, chapel sermons, and the full BBC Radio Cymru spoken-word feed, mirrored openly.

Browse Welsh →

Under 5,000 titles online

Yiddish — 2,940 titles

The largest open Yiddish audiobook archive anywhere — cantorial recordings, memoir readings, and children's stories.

Browse Yiddish →

Under 5,000 titles online

Haitian Creole — 740 titles

Recorded literature, political speeches, and folk-tale readings submitted by Haitian editors in Port-au-Prince.

Browse Kreyòl →

See the full list of 31 underrepresented languages →

The archive in numbers

84 Languages indexed
184,000+ Titles archived since 2014
47.8M Listening sessions in 2024
47min Average session duration

We don't wait for a commercial market to appear before we preserve a language. The whole point of an open archive is that Tatar listeners, Welsh learners, and Haitian diaspora readers get the same shelf as English speakers — same audio quality, same metadata, same access. The catalog is the argument.

Dr. Aoife Ní Bhriain

Editor, Celtic & Endangered Languages — MP3Slovo, Dublin

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