Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1 (The North Wind and the Sun)
Aesop
35 chapters · 37 min · English
Read by Julie VW, Padraig O'hIceadha, Annise, Ruth Golding, Elli, Diana Majlinger and others
Education · Language learning · Miscellaneous
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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 1 min 2 Irish accent 1 min 3 Australian accent 1 min 4 English accent, RP ('no regional accent') 1 min 5 Austrian accent (German) 1 min 6 Hungarian accent 1 min 7 Dutch accent 1 min 8 American accent, 'Air Force Brat' 1 min 9 English accent, South-East London 1 min 10 Chinese accent, Taiwan 1 min 11 English accent, 'honed-off' Black Country Accent 1 min 12 American accent, Upstate New York 1 min 13 New Zealand accent, Central North Island 1 min 14 American accent, South Carolina 1 min 15 Australian accent 1 min 16 English accent, mother tongue Dutch 1 min 17 American accent, Southern California 1 min 18 Chinese accent, Singaporean 1 min 19 American accent, Minnesota 1 min 20 Canadian accent, Newfoundland 1 min 21 German accent 1 min 22 American accent, Midwestern 1 min 23 American accent, West Central Pennsylvania 1 min 24 Australian accent, cultivated 1 min 25 Australian accent 1 min 26 English accent, neutral, southern 1 min 27 American accent, Southern Indiana 1 min 28 American accent, Texas 1 min 29 German accent 1 min 30 American accent, New York City 1 min 31 Northern Ireland accent 1 min 32 French accent 1 min 33 Australian accent, metropolitan 1 min 34 American accent, western 1 min 35 Australian accent 1 min