Here are three of my favourite sites for uploading audio:
This site is really easy to use for both teachers and students. It's free and really quick to make an account. The site stores all of your audio and it can be easily organized. What I really like about this is that it can be shared publicly or you can share it privately by giving the link to your students. You can also embed the audio file into your blog. You can upload audio that's already made or you can simply press record and make your clip on the spot.
This is a podcast website. It's a bit more difficult to navigate than soundcloud, but it will host a podcast channel for you for free with 49MB of space for free. I might use this for a weekly recap of French lessons for all of my classes. What we learned and what students should be practicing for each grade. What I don't like is that you have to upload audio that you have already made. There is no recording capabilities on this site.
500MB of storage makes this website a slightly better option for podcast hosting than Podbean. This site is also more user friendly. There is also no recording capabilities on this website. You can upload any media file you like. The process for publishing your podcast is easy. It leads you through one step at a time.
Personally I think it is limiting to just upload audio files. Adding a visual layer to your audio would help keep more students interested. Consider putting a bit more effort in and making a powtoon cartoon with your audio overlay at www.powtoon.com or creating an avatar to do the speaking for you using voki. (there is a free version that gives you 60 second audio recording clips, or a paid version for teachers that does great presentations). Voki is something I would have my students use to do short 1 minute presentations for those who are afraid of presenting in front of the class.
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