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I recently stumbled upon this site:
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/dialects-accents
and it's awesome. It's got samples of people with accents from all over the world speaking in English, a scripted story and then a bit of unscripted speech. I've found it very useful. Just wanted to share.

Oooh~ <3 *bookmarks*

This is awesome!

One of the Norwegians sounds like me! My English accent is actually Norwegian! I suddenly feel normal! It's great.

Have you ever done a vocaroo? I want to hear your accent!

There you go, me recording something in the middle of the night. And I talk really slowly there, I usually talk really fast.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0dJmqUVrJMu - That is me rerecording the same poem I recorded a couple of months ago, because I couldn't find the original link.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15212

Oh, that's awesome! Thanks! You sound great. <3

Aw this makes me super bummed out. Apparently the only accents worth studying in New York are the ones downstate. I have an interesting dialect too, I promise! Really!

But no seriously, thanks for linking.

I'm just glad that they don't just do 'southern accent' and leave it at that for where I live. Most people do. @_@

But yeah, this is awesome OP! Thanks for the link.

I know that feel. Apparently, the only Ohio accents worth listening to are in the NE (and one in Cincinnati), and not in the middle of the state.

Right?

I mean, my dialect sounds sorta Scots Irish, like the really rural Eastern Vermont area, rather than the flat, broad accent you get from like Syracuse south.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The site is open for submissions, if your accent isn't represented surely it just means that no one has submitted yet?

Oh dude I had no idea. Shows me for not reading the site through properly.

Thanks for pointing that out!

I'm curious; what's the difference between accents in upstate and downstate New York?

Uh, well. The thing about New York, is that there's loads of pockets of fairly distinct dialects.

Downstate New York (is in the City, the burroughs, and Long Island), all have similar influences that come out radically different.

A little further up north, and you have places like Albany which were influenced heavily by the Dutch settlers.

By the time you hit midpoint New York, like Syracuse, you have an accent which may sound surprisingly similar to people in Wisconsin, Michigan, all that. It's part of the Great Northern City Vowel Shift.

However, you get into what we New Yorkers call the North Country, and you run into pockets of settlements that haven't been influenced by the Shift, and there hasn't been a lot of people coming in and changing the accent that was set down by the original settlers.

I did a quick recording where I tried to hit a bunch of words that show what my section of the North Country sounds like.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s10Dao85Ii78

That is neat! But they picked the people with the strongest rural Southern (USA) drawls they could find apparently for the Mississippi contributors. (A pet peeve of mine that happens all too often.)

By comparison, this is me: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0UKnIjM2uUb

By contrast they seemed to go with the people with the weakest southern accents* for Texas, so...idek. Maybe it was just who they could get to volunteer in whatever time limit they had?

*I specify southern 'cause there *is* a guy with a fairly strong mexican accent in the bunch.

OMG thanks so much! I could totally geek over this for hours. *_*

http://accent.gmu.edu/ is also a great accent resource. (especially if you read IPA, but the recordings are pretty awesome on their own)

I'm surprised but how few California samples there are, especially Northern and non-coastal. 6 is about average for their site, but CA is so big we certainly have more variations. Bakersfield, for instance, has a lot of traces of the accents of Midwesterners who moved there in the 1930s in their local accent. Their California 1 is from right around my area; I'm a ~Valley Girl ohmigawwd~. I don't say like and um half as often as their speaker does in her anecdote, and I don't think I have as such a strong terminal rise.

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