tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9882845.post-1144617145457897392006-04-09T17:12:00.000-04:002006-04-09T17:12:25.470-04:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The <a href="http://accent.gmu.edu/">Speech Accent Archive</a> 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!<br/><br/></div>Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02894455480408955059noreply@blogger.com