Do We Really Talk Like This?

(post title courtesy of mabfan)

From George Mason University, via languagehat, The Speech Accent Archive.

From the intro page:

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

I saw a similar, but much smaller, database a couple of years ago, but I can't remember where. If I find it again, I'll post it.