Language-Geek Post

[gnomi]

One of my coworkers, knowing my love of language and of the IPA, sent me here, to the Speech Accent Archive.

The archive currently contains 306 speech samples, each of someone reading the following text:

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

I'm a sucker for accents and differences in pronunciation. So this makes me all warm and squishy inside.

Comments

[arib.livejournal.com]

You're a human being, that pretty much guarantees that you're warm and squishy inside.

Just sayin'

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Oh yes.

At first I was thinking that the only way I could justify getting such a visceral thrill out of this site was that the first several samples I listened to were male. Yum, exotic accents. ;-) But now I've listened to several more, including some female speakers -- and no, it's really more just about the linguistics. Whee!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Wicked awesome cool!