Casting directors for medical training videos chase the same problem every season — actors fake coughs and the audience can hear the fake. 30 child cough recordings here solve that quietly: dry hacking coughs that scratch high in the throat, the seal-bark of croup that pediatric nurses recognise on sight, wet productive coughs with rattle underneath, and the short throat-clears that punctuate a child trying to speak through a cold. Ages range from toddler to early teens, with the timbre clearly different between the brackets.
Pediatric e-learning modules use the croup and dry-cough material to teach triage recognition. Film foley for sick-kid scenes reaches for the lighter throat-clears and the brief wet coughs — too many sustained hacks reads as performance, not illness. Animation and audiobook narration use them sparingly as character beats. Each clip is dry, centre-panned and trimmed clean. Free to download for any project, no attribution required, no signup wall.