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How to Do Accents: Links
- http://accent.gmu.edu
The Speech Accent Archive is a project of the Center for History and New Media. It 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.
- www.bbc.co.uk
This is a good website generally. You can listen to interviews on Radio 4 and check out the excellent ‘Routes Of English’ series that has some great samples and background information on accents and dialects of English. (You can in fact buy this series in book and CD form.)
- www.bbc.co.uk/voices
The clips are drawn from the ‘Voices’ recordings – which capture 1,200 people in conversation. There’s a great map that you can ‘hover’ over to locate the samples you’re looking for.
- www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds
www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects
These are the British Library websites with some lovely archive recordings of British accents and dialects.
- www.google.com
Put in the name of the accent you are looking for together with the words ‘accent’ or ‘dialect’ and see what you get!
- www.youtube.com
You will find people demonstrating their accents all over the place on this site, either deliberately or by default!
- www.publicradiofan.com
This website lists all the international public radio stations, telling you which ones are currently online and giving live access.
- http://web.ku.edu/idea
IDEA – the International Dialects of English Archive – is a Kansas University project; it is not, however, limited to American accents. We like it because it often offers more than one example and gives details of the gender, age, race and profession of the speakers. Each speaker reads a passage of text specifically written to contain all the possible sound combinations of English, as well as contributing some ‘free conversational speech’.
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