![]() ![]() Wells' standard lexical sets and allows the dialect researcher to examine a reader's English pronunciation across a wide variety of phonemic contexts.Īverage file sizes (Kb): MP3 666, WAV 3675. This passage was specially composed using J.C. New York City speaker, recently relocated to Missouri.Mid-western speaker (North-East Kansas).Who knows more about tasting things? He's used the book." Text: "I teach Ferdinand the calm cat to fetch cold cups of coffee. Southern speaker (eastern North Carolina)Īccent determination by a short introduction with a few significant sentences.Īverage file sizes (Kb): MP3 14, WAV 36.Standard American speech (assembled from the Random House Second Unabridged dictionary).American speaker from Southern California.Mid-western speaker (South-East Oklahoma).General mid-western speaker (Dayton, Ohio).New Zealand speaker (due to a transmission error "bother" was confused with "brother").Text: "Bother, father caught hot coffee in the car park." Īverage file sizes (Kb): MP3 55, WAV 155. (+ indicates higher quality reproduction, double the file size) The Rainbow PassageĪverage file sizes (Kb): MP3 190, WAV 530. Southern California native living in Florida, male, 50, with national influences (and some voice training).Georgia speaker with northern Florida influences ( comments).Chicago speaker with influences from Iowa and Southern California.Western speaker with influences from all over America.American speaker with various influences.New York City born Northeastern speaker.Southwestern speaker with mid-western influences.General mid-western speaker (Michigan).British speaker with international influences.RP speaker 2 (was incorrectly labelled "RP speaker 1" before ).RP speaker 1 (was incorrectly labelled "RP speaker 2" before ).Canadian from Atlantic Canada (East Coast).Canadian speaker with assorted influences.Arthur the RatĪverage file sizes (Kb): MP3 210, WAV 590 "RP" stands for "Received Pronunciation" ( more information). To enable MP3 in your browser, visit MPEG.ORG. Also a few users have found that the WAV files sound garbled on their PCs. The MP3 files are recommended because they are much smaller, so they download more quickly and are more economical with Internet resources. The sound samples on this page are available in MP3 and WAV format. (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, USA) The North Wind and The Sun (England, USA, Canada).The Rainbow Passage (Australia, England, USA).Arthur the Rat (Australia, Canada, England, India, Ireland, USA, Wales).The spoken texts have been chosen for their usefulness in accent determination. Sound samples are spoken by native English speakers from around the world. ![]()
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