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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol. 1
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)
- Wikipedia – The North Wind and the Sun
- LibriVox’s Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol. 1 Internet Archive page
- Zip file of the entire book17MB
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Total running time: 0:36:39
In addition to the readers, this audio book was produced by:
Book Coordinator: Délibáb; Diana Majlinger
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Annise
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- Flemish accent, slight – 00:01:04
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Read by: Julie VW - Irish accent – 00:01:14
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Read by: Padraig O’hIceadha - Australian accent – 00:01:00
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Read by: Annise - English accent, RP (’no regional accent’) – 00:01:15
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Read by: Ruth Golding - Austrian accent (German) – 00:00:53
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Read by: Elli - Hungarian accent – 00:01:03
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Read by: Diana Majlinger - Dutch accent – 00:01:00
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Read by: Anna Simon - American accent, ‘Air Force Brat’ – 00:01:08
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Read by: Bellona Times - English accent, South-East London – 00:00:57
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Read by: Peter Yearsley - Chinese accent, Taiwan – 00:01:06
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Read by: Semantic Nuance - English accent, ‘honed-off’ Black Country Accent – 00:01:05
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Read by: Shipley - American accent, Upstate New York – 00:00:55
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Read by: Bridget Gaige - New Zealand accent, Central North Island – 00:01:03
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Read by: Marianne Coleman-Hipkins - American accent, South Carolina – 00:00:54
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Read by: Laurie Anne Walden - Australian accent – 00:01:11
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Read by: Graeme Dunlop - English accent, mother tongue Dutch – 00:01:09
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Read by: Ernst Pattynama - American accent, Southern California – 00:00:52
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Read by: Kara Shallenberg - Chinese accent, Singaporean – 00:01:01
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Read by: mezzogal - American accent, Minnesota – 00:01:01
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Read by: Tricia G - Canadian accent, Newfoundland – 00:00:54
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Read by: Sean Michael Hogan - German accent – 00:01:09
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Read by: Jessi - American accent, Midwestern – 00:01:08
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Read by: Alana Jordan - American accent, West Central Pennsylvania – 00:01:07
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Read by: dullstar - Australian accent, cultivated – 00:01:03
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Read by: Timothy Ferguson - Australian accent – 00:00:51
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Read by: Magdalena - English accent, neutral, southern – 00:01:08
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Read by: Stuart Bell - American accent, Southern Indiana – 00:01:05
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Read by: Joy Easton - American accent, Texas – 00:00:56
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Read by: Andi - German accent – 00:00:57
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Read by: Sonja - American accent, New York City – 00:01:12
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Read by: Alan Davis Drake - Northern Ireland accent – 00:01:06
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Read by: Délibáb - French accent – 00:01:09
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Read by: Ezwa - Australian accent, metropolitan – 00:00:58
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Read by: May Low - American accent, western – 00:00:50
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Read by: Ben Gr - Australian accent – 00:01:15
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Read by: Lucy Burgoyne
Cataloged on September 21, 2009
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