diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 66adb4de75..e808f2734e 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -637,6 +637,7 @@
     VKUserVideosIE,
 )
 from .vodlocker import VodlockerIE
+from .voicerepublic import VoiceRepublicIE
 from .vporn import VpornIE
 from .vrt import VRTIE
 from .vube import VubeIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/voicerepublic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/voicerepublic.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1106c655b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/voicerepublic.py
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..compat import (
+    compat_urllib_request,
+    compat_urlparse,
+)
+from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
+    determine_ext,
+    int_or_none,
+)
+
+
+class VoiceRepublicIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://voicerepublic\.com/(?:talks|embed)/(?P<id>[0-9a-z-]+)'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'http://voicerepublic.com/talks/watching-the-watchers-building-a-sousveillance-state',
+        'md5': '0554a24d1657915aa8e8f84e15dc9353',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '2296',
+            'display_id': 'watching-the-watchers-building-a-sousveillance-state',
+            'ext': 'm4a',
+            'title': 'Watching the Watchers: Building a Sousveillance State',
+            'description': 'md5:715ba964958afa2398df615809cfecb1',
+            'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.(?:png|jpg)$',
+            'duration': 1800,
+            'view_count': int,
+        }
+    }, {
+        'url': 'http://voicerepublic.com/embed/watching-the-watchers-building-a-sousveillance-state',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }]
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        display_id = self._match_id(url)
+
+        req = compat_urllib_request.Request(
+            compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, '/talks/%s' % display_id))
+        # Older versions of Firefox get redirected to an "upgrade browser" page
+        req.add_header('User-Agent', 'youtube-dl')
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(req, display_id)
+
+        if '>Queued for processing, please stand by...<' in webpage:
+            raise ExtractorError(
+                'Audio is still queued for processing', expected=True)
+
+        data = self._parse_json(
+            self._search_regex(
+                r'(?s)return ({.+?});\s*\n', webpage,
+                'data', default=None),
+            display_id, fatal=False)
+
+        if data:
+            title = data['title']
+            description = data.get('teaser')
+            talk_id = data.get('talk_id') or display_id
+            talk = data['talk']
+            duration = int_or_none(talk.get('duration'))
+            formats = [{
+                'url': compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, talk_url),
+                'format_id': format_id,
+                'ext': determine_ext(talk_url) or format_id,
+                'vcodec': 'none',
+            } for format_id, talk_url in talk['links'].items()]
+        else:
+            title = self._og_search_title(webpage)
+            description = self._html_search_regex(
+                r"(?s)<div class='talk-teaser'[^>]*>(.+?)</div>",
+                webpage, 'description', fatal=False)
+            talk_id = self._search_regex(
+                [r"id='jc-(\d+)'", r"data-shareable-id='(\d+)'"],
+                webpage, 'talk id', default=None) or display_id
+            duration = None
+            formats = [{
+                'url': compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, talk_url),
+                'format_id': format_id,
+                'ext': determine_ext(talk_url) or format_id,
+                'vcodec': 'none',
+            } for format_id, talk_url in re.findall(r"data-([^=]+)='([^']+)'", webpage)]
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        thumbnail = self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage)
+        view_count = int_or_none(self._search_regex(
+            r"class='play-count[^']*'>\s*(\d+) plays",
+            webpage, 'play count', fatal=False))
+
+        return {
+            'id': talk_id,
+            'display_id': display_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'description': description,
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+            'duration': duration,
+            'view_count': view_count,
+            'formats': formats,
+        }