Archive of speeches, from films and recorded audio.
Contains the best talks from the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference
Membership organization for communication and leadership development
The ACA is a not-for-profit virtual professional association with actual presence in the world of communication scholars and practitioners.
Communication is one of the most important skills in the workplace. How do you measure up?
An article about adding humor to your speeches.
A post on Harvard Extension School's blog.
Gifts of Speech is a non-profit project, sponsored by Sweet Briar College, dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by inspirational, influential and contemporary, women from around the world. It only includes transcripts for included speeches.
Includes video and audio for famous speeches on a variety of topics.
African American Speeches. Offers background information, transcripts, and audio.
Subject Specific Open Resources:
Open-access, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal in the field of communications
An open-access peer-reviewed journal of case studies in strategic communication
Open access research journal covering public relations and communication
Open-access peer-reviewed journal focusing on written, oral, visual, electronic, and non-verbal professional communication
A student-run open access interdisciplinary journal
An open-access peer-reviewed journal covering digital media in the humanities
Open access peer-reviewed journal publishing research in film and media studies
Worksheets to help you keep track of your speech sources / topic ideas: