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Speech Accent Archive

An archive of (at the time of writing) 795 people from around the world, reading the same passage, many entries including a narrow phonetic transcription:

http://accent.gmu.edu/

Oddly enough, I found out about it watching an interview of the lovely Zooey Deschanel where she cites it as the latest website she bookmarked.

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Donna on Oct. 3, 2007:

I want my voice to be recorded so that i will know my accent

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Created: Aug. 25, 2007
Last Modified: Aug. 25, 2007
Author: jtauber