The Speech Accent Archive has recently been refreshed! Check out the post on the Mason Phonetics and Phonology Lab website for more details, or visit the site at accent.gmu.edu!
New features include plain-text transcriptions for recordings (when available), a restored search feature, and the ability to download the source files of the Archive through the Open Science Framework (OSF).
The Speech Accent Archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers.
Users include ESL teachers who instruct non-native speakers of English, actors who need to learn an accent, engineers who train speech recognition machines, and speech scientists who do research on foreign accent and teach phonetic transcription.