A filing cabinet full of stuff I have stumbled across, but can no longer keep in hard copy.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Accenting Stella
"Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station."
Nonsense, you say? No -- this is a text created to reveal regional and national accents on George Mason University's Speech Accent Archive. It's fun to listen to the many ways English can sound around the world.
Although I wish there were a lot more samples from places where English is the native language. It seems like only a small percentage of the American accents I've heard are represented, for instance.
And while I'm wishing, perhaps it could have a better interface. Clicking flags on of a tiny map is not my idea of a good way to sample recordings. But oh, well. It's fun anyway.
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