Speech Accent Archive

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From the page: The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the... more

Reviewed by Inertial-Mass Aug 29 2006, 08:27am ( 156 reviews ) • gmu.edu

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Rated by MtFujiInMyPants on Nov 03, 8:30am

Extremely happy that I stumbled onto this site. Another nice site is the International Dialects of English Archive http://web.ku.edu/~idea/ however, this site is much more organized and vast. I use sites like this for accent work in acting gigs.
Rated by warriorkitty on Oct 22, 11:56am

the new orleans woman doesn't sound at all like new orleans, probably has lived elsewhere or traveled a lot. same reason I didn't leave a sample as it would mess up their project! great idea and really like the site.
Reviewed by aldomencaraglia on Jun 19, 2:41am

Ascolta accenti in Inglese da tutto il mondo
Rated by AhmedM85 on Jun 18, 10:29pm

Really cool stuff. There are tons of accents on there, something to do when I'm really bored :)
Rated by Darkwarrior331 on May 12 2009, 8:19pm

Very cool site! you can now prove the speech differences between regions and countries, would like to see it on some other languages =) ... (oh god, most of the Colombian ones suck u_u)
Reviewed by Itumble on May 09 2009, 8:33am

Accent anyone?
Rated by Diocletian9 on Apr 20 2009, 10:54pm

very interesting
Rated by elesel on Feb 25 2009, 11:39am

I think this is extremely interesting
Rated by Manictastic on Jan 20 2009, 1:45pm

Speakers with different mother tongues speak English in a huge database of English accents.

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