Links

 Paul Meier Dialect Services

Dialect materials and instruction from Paul Meier, Founder and Director of IDEA. www.paulmeier.com

Accent Help

offered by Jim Johnson, Associate Editor for Texas

http://www.accenthelp.com/

Accents of English from Around the World

http://www.soundcomparisons.com/

American Languages: Our Nation’s Many Voices

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AmerLangs/

Appledore Historical Society

(sayings & idioms from a small fishing village in North Devon, England)
http://www.iwasthere.org.uk/

BBC Voices Project

(1200 recordings of British and Irish voices)
www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml

British Library: Archival Sound Recordings/Accents and Dialects.

http://sounds.bl.uk/BrowseCategory.aspx?category=Accents-and-dialects

Center for Applied Linguistics

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/linguistics/map.html

Dialect Resource (Gillian Lane-Plescia)

www.dialectresource.com

Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)

polyglot.1ss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

International Phonetic Association (IPA)

www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

International Phonetic Alphabet; online interactive charts with all the symbols voiced

http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html

International Phonetic Alphabet; software allows you to instantly generate IPA symbols to cut and paste into your own document. Ideal for small jobs and for those who don’t want to learn more complicated IPA keyboard programs
http://weston.ruter.net/projects/ipa-chart/view/keyboard/

Knight/Thompson Speechwork

http://www.ktspeechwork.com/index.html

Log It! Track It! Book It! The Standard in Performer Organizational Tools

http://www.holdonlog.com/

Native Languages of the Americas

http://www.native-languages.org/

Phonological Atlas of North America

www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html

Regional Dialects of American English

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html

SIL International (Formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics)

www.sil.org

Speech Accent Archive

http://accent.gmu.edu

Survey of English Dialects

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/lodz/conversations/

Vincent Voice Library

http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/

Visual Accent & Dialect Archive (VADA)

http://mith.umd.edu/vada/

Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/

Voice & Speech Trainers Association (VASTA)

www.vasta.org