Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1 (The North Wind and the Sun)
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Read by LibriVox Volunteers
A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the LibriVox community!
The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent 'database' available to the world, by releasing the recordings into the public domain. (Summary by Délibáb) (0 hr 36 min)
Chapters
| Flemish accent, slight | 1:04 | Read by Julie VW |
| Irish accent | 1:14 | Read by Padraig O'hIceadha |
| Australian accent | 1:00 | Read by Annise |
| English accent, RP ('no regional accent') | 1:15 | Read by Ruth Golding |
| Austrian accent (German) | 0:53 | Read by Elli |
| Hungarian accent | 1:03 | Read by Diana Majlinger |
| Dutch accent | 1:00 | Read by Anna Simon |
| American accent, 'Air Force Brat' | 1:08 | Read by Bellona Times |
| English accent, South-East London | 0:57 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Chinese accent, Taiwan | 1:06 | Read by Semantic Nuance |
| English accent, 'honed-off' Black Country Accent | 1:05 | Read by David Cole |
| American accent, Upstate New York | 0:55 | Read by Bridget Gaige |
| New Zealand accent, Central North Island | 1:03 | Read by Marianne Coleman-Hipkins |
| American accent, South Carolina | 0:54 | Read by Laurie Anne Walden |
| Australian accent | 1:11 | Read by Graeme Dunlop |
| English accent, mother tongue Dutch | 1:09 | Read by Ernst Pattynama |
| American accent, Southern California | 0:52 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Chinese accent, Singaporean | 1:01 | Read by mezzogal |
| American accent, Minnesota | 1:01 | Read by TriciaG |
| Canadian accent, Newfoundland | 0:54 | Read by Sean Michael Hogan |
| German accent | 1:09 | Read by Jessi |
| American accent, Midwestern | 1:08 | Read by Alana Jordan |
| American accent, West Central Pennsylvania | 1:07 | Read by dullstar |
| Australian accent, cultivated | 1:03 | Read by Timothy Ferguson |
| Australian accent | 0:51 | Read by Magdalena |
| English accent, neutral, southern | 1:08 | Read by Stuart Bell |
| American accent, Southern Indiana | 1:05 | Read by Joy Easton |
| American accent, Texas | 0:56 | Read by Andi |
| German accent | 0:57 | Read by Sonja |
| American accent, New York City | 1:12 | Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010) |
| Northern Ireland accent | 1:06 | Read by Délibáb |
| French accent | 1:09 | Read by Ezwa |
| Australian accent, metropolitan | 0:58 | Read by May Low |
| American accent, western | 0:50 | Read by Ben Gr |
| Australian accent | 1:15 | Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) |
Reviews
terrific!
Heloisa
terrific! one can truly perceive the differences between the accents. great for english study and language enthusiasts.
Love Audio Books
This was quite interesting. Thx librevox