Suggested sources for vocal samples of the sci-fi, horror, occult, poetic kind - anything dark, futuristic or ominous - without any background music or sounds playing?
I might have to start chanting into my OT!
Text to speech? Online or apps, realistic voices or robotic, most are configurable.
YouTube has free audio books. Likes of hp lovecraft n asimov etc
Hours and hours and hours of possibilities at UbuWeb Sound.
This sample pack (and others from the same profile) have a good variety, but also some background stuff on a lot of them. Still usable tho IMO.
glitch splice ! its 6€ for 100 samples 
grab oooh ahhh raps dialogues dials phones…
archive.org has tons of audiobooks, old radio shows, and generally people talking.
the library of congress also has downloadable audio of speeches and tons of other stuff. there’s a good chance of finding public domain audio in both places.
also check archives of old tv shows. i’ve come across some with audio, but you can also rip the audio tracks from video. i use interviews and speeches from youtube all the time for clips.
That’s a GREAT resource, thanks!
Ditto!
@sndrsklr - I have that one 
@canister - stupidly I never thought to type audiobook in the YouTube search instead of ‘no music’ or ‘speech only’!
Plenty of interesting readings, and other oddities
oh, i posted the link somewhere before, but one of the university of california schools has an online archive of cylinder recordings, some of which are spoken word. it may also be worth checking. some of the earlier recordings of home and radio performances are just voice. the library of congress archive includes field and home recordings of people reading poems. they may not be famous works, but it’s interesting stuff.
audio from this collection of videos is usually pretty good, too.
Cheers @rockpapergoat I’ll check them out.
Already got one thing I wanted from archive.org, how on earth did I not come across that!
I’ve sampled the free public domain audiobooks at LibriVox. You can search by author and then if you find a reader whose voice you like you can find other things they’ve read.
I must admit that there is a part of me that doesn’t want to sample audiobook material, even though there is likely a ton of useful samples located there.
Sampling dialogue from film is just embedded within me, having grown up listening to industrial and other sample-based music.
But really, that’s just a useless prejudice. Audio books are probably a treasure trove.
just pop down to your local record store and hit the dollar section- you’re bound to find loads of old comedy albums as well as religious spoken word stuff. every time i go digging i try to pick up a couple of comedy albums.
Lots of video game soundtracks and sound effects here. A lot with dry dialogue recordings too, just might take a while to sift through all of it… I grabbed the OG Deus Ex dialogue, some really interesting dark vox in that about conspiracy theories etc.
NASA
I’m pretty sure their archives are royalty free.
If you’re on CB I can read you some Poe over the waves.
That would be a fantastic idea - but I’m not 
Maybe in future!
Website looks great - there are a lot of zips on there for DE, can you point me to the one you mean please?
Theres a voices section under the main game that has all of the dialogue split into missions, the endings and intros are a good place to start, but there would be some good stuff under the common section too as I think that contains NPC dialogue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/
One great source. They post a lot of rare interviews, PSAs, training videos, and other stuff.