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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1 (The North Wind and the Sun)

Aesop (c. 620 BCE - 564)

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)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Education, Language learning

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Flemish accent, slight	Julie VW	00:01:04
Play 02	Irish accent	Padraig O'hIceadha	00:01:14
Play 03	Australian accent	Annise	00:01:00
Play 04	English accent, RP ('no regional accent')	Ruth Golding	00:01:15
Play 05	Austrian accent (German)	Elli	00:00:53
Play 06	Hungarian accent	Diana Majlinger	00:01:03
Play 07	Dutch accent	Anna Simon	00:01:00
Play 08	American accent, 'Air Force Brat'	Bellona Times	00:01:08
Play 09	English accent, South-East London	Peter Yearsley	00:00:57
Play 10	Chinese accent, Taiwan	Semantic Nuance	00:01:06
Play 11	English accent, 'honed-off' Black Country Accent	David Cole	00:01:05
Play 12	American accent, Upstate New York	Bridget Gaige	00:00:55
Play 13	New Zealand accent, Central North Island	Marianne Coleman-Hipkins	00:01:03
Play 14	American accent, South Carolina	Laurie Anne Walden	00:00:54
Play 15	Australian accent	Graeme Dunlop	00:01:11
Play 16	English accent, mother tongue Dutch	Ernst Pattynama	00:01:09
Play 17	American accent, Southern California	Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)	00:00:52
Play 18	Chinese accent, Singaporean	mezzogal	00:01:01
Play 19	American accent, Minnesota	TriciaG	00:01:01
Play 20	Canadian accent, Newfoundland	Sean Michael Hogan	00:00:54
Play 21	German accent	Jessi	00:01:09
Play 22	American accent, Midwestern	Alana Jordan	00:01:08
Play 23	American accent, West Central Pennsylvania	dullstar	00:01:07
Play 24	Australian accent, cultivated	Timothy Ferguson	00:01:03
Play 25	Australian accent	Magdalena	00:00:51
Play 26	English accent, neutral, southern	Stuart Bell	00:01:08
Play 27	American accent, Southern Indiana	Joy Easton	00:01:05
Play 28	American accent, Texas	Andi	00:00:56
Play 29	German accent	Sonja	00:00:57
Play 30	American accent, New York City	Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)	00:01:12
Play 31	Northern Ireland accent	Délibáb	00:01:06
Play 32	French accent	Ezwa	00:01:09
Play 33	Australian accent, metropolitan	May Low	00:00:58
Play 34	American accent, western	Ben Gr	00:00:50
Play 35	Australian accent	Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)	00:01:15

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