MetaFilter posts tagged with linguistics and phonetics

Hear and Compare Accents of English from Around the World

Kattullus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:16:40 -0800

Sound Comparisons is a database of different accents in English from all over the world. It provides soundfiles and IPA transcriptions of 110 words in 110 separate dialects and Germanic languages closely related to English. Most dialects and languages are current but there are also reconstructions of older stages of English, Scots and Germanic. That makes for 12100 soundfiles that load directly into your browser. The site can be navigated either by dialect or individual word and there's also a handy Google map of all the different dialects and languages. If you've ever wondered what the difference was between a Somerset and a Norwich accent, New Zealand and Australian, Canadian and American or Indian and Glaswegian, Sound Comparisons is the site to go to.

That hokum recording of Bruckner's

Gyan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:34:39 -0800

pronunciationguide - for aspiring classical radio announcers

Scots' speech for the glaikit

persona non grata — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:46:10 -0800

Losh! That's a stoater of a web site!

That's some voiceless epiglottal fricative you've got there.

kenko — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:38:44 -0800

Hear the International Phonetic Alphabet. Voiced by one Paul Meier. One of the coolest things ever. [via languagehat]