Audio Distribution - Other Options for distributing Speech Audio

• legaltorrents - lection of Creative Commons-licensed, legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files,
• Shorten
  • Shorten Simple lossless and near-lossless waveform compression
  • from LDC Tools web site:
• Tony Robinson's "shorten" package to compress the data. Shorten typically provides lossless compression ratios up to 2:1 on 16-bit audio files; when uncompressed, the resulting data file is fully identical to the original data prior to compression (just like in text data compression).