Speakola was created by Melbourne author and speaker Tony Wilson in August 2016. He’s since made it his love project to collect speeches of all types, famous and not famous, and built an online collection of 2000 plus speeches.

It’s now also a podcast with 40 plus interviews that’s had over 100,000 downloads.

There is no excellent speech that is not welcome on the site, and if there is no obvious category, we can find a home in the glorious wonderland of ‘other events’.

We build the collection through the help of friends and visitors who recommend great speeches we are missing, or send in personal, friend or family offerings via the submit button. We try for a transcript for every speech, so that a visit to Speakola feels easier and more fulfilling than a speeches trawl across YouTube.

For each speech, we attempt to include speaker name, event, location, date, a still photo for thumbnail, transcript, and if it exists, a video embed. If it doesn’t, we are happy with transcript and banner photo.

We’d love this to be an international library of great speeches, so every nationality is welcome. An English translation is required to help a predominantly anglophone audience.

So that’s the Speakola project. It’s going well. There were over 1.5 million visits in the last 12 months.

Copyright in the speech remains with the speaker.