I Stumbled into Something Wonderful

writeworld:

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And I just needed to share it with all of you. 

It’s the Speech Accent Archive, and any accent you can possibly imagine, you’re like to find it there. It’s an amazing resource for myself as point of reference and I’m sure a great load of you would appreciate it as well.

Along with recordings, it provides the phonetics right alongside the paragraph recording. Each one is the same so you can really pick at the small slips and rolls of the speech. There are people from every region you could think of, both men and women, as well as mixed age groups. 

-Cas

chrissykp added: Here’s a similar site: http://www.dialectsarchive.com/