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4.09.2006

GMU Speech Accent Archive

The Speech Accent Archive run by some folks at George Mason University now has 523 recordings. It's a pretty cool site with streaming audio of both native and non-native English speakers all reading the same paragraph of text, and IPA transcriptions are provided along with generalizations about the phonetic features of the accent. I'm not sure I agree with all of the transcriptions, but it's a really fun site nonetheless. I wish there were some way to play a random recording so I could guess where it's from!

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