Thursday, August 12, 2004

Speech Accent Archive A real find. The Speech Accent Archive plays your selection of accents and sub-accents of native speakers of other languages trying to read the same paragraph in English. It's a great way to learn to pronounce a foreign language--when you see and hear what mistakes they make trying to speak English, you can understand what they do with similar consonants, vowels and diphthongs in their own languges. Fabulous. This site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Currently, we have obtained 355 speech samples. To explore the features of this site, use the pop-up menu below. 6:55:21 PM