Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1 (The North Wind and the Sun)
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Length 37 min
Chapters 35
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)
Chapters
1
Flemish accent, slight Read by Julie VW 1:04
2
Irish accent Read by Padraig O'hIceadha 1:14
3
Australian accent Read by Annise 1:00
4
English accent, RP ('no regional accent') Read by Ruth Golding 1:15
5
Austrian accent (German) Read by Elli 0:53
6
Hungarian accent Read by Diana Majlinger 1:03
7
Dutch accent Read by Anna Simon 1:00
8
American accent, 'Air Force Brat' Read by Bellona Times 1:08
9
English accent, South-East London Read by Peter Yearsley 0:57
10
Chinese accent, Taiwan Read by Semantic Nuance 1:06
11
English accent, 'honed-off' Black Country Accent Read by David Cole 1:05
12
American accent, Upstate New York Read by Bridget Gaige 0:55
13
New Zealand accent, Central North Island Read by Marianne Coleman-Hipkins 1:03
14
American accent, South Carolina Read by Laurie Anne Walden 0:54
15
Australian accent Read by Graeme Dunlop 1:11
16
English accent, mother tongue Dutch Read by Ernst Pattynama 1:09
17
American accent, Southern California Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 0:52
18
Chinese accent, Singaporean Read by mezzogal 1:01
19
American accent, Minnesota Read by TriciaG 1:01
20
Canadian accent, Newfoundland Read by Sean Michael Hogan 0:54
21
German accent Read by Jessi 1:09
22
American accent, Midwestern Read by Alana Jordan 1:08
23
American accent, West Central Pennsylvania Read by dullstar 1:07
24
Australian accent, cultivated Read by Timothy Ferguson 1:03
25
Australian accent Read by Magdalena 0:51
26
English accent, neutral, southern Read by Stuart Bell 1:08
27
American accent, Southern Indiana Read by Joy Easton 1:05
28
American accent, Texas Read by Andi 0:56
29
German accent Read by Sonja 0:57
30
American accent, New York City Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010) 1:12
31
Northern Ireland accent Read by Délibáb 1:06
32
French accent Read by Ezwa 1:09
33
Australian accent, metropolitan Read by May Low 0:58
34
American accent, western Read by Ben Gr 0:50
35
Australian accent Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014) 1:15
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens en.wikipedia.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
