This seems like a great idea and I listened eagerly but..... if you are
English like me I can mostly hear the American accents. I don't know how we
would get round this.... I mean, everyone thinks they are the one without an
accent (especially the Americans I know ;-) How can we get the spoken word
to stand still for a minute so we can hear it speaking? I suppose that's
where we, the poets, come in :-) (Maybe they should have done it in Latin
;-)
I would love to be able to learn to read and write in phonetics....
Best wishes in 404 different languages
Annie
>From: Trevor Joyce <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Speech accent archive
>Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:14:06 +0000
>
>>This site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different
>>language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Currently, we
>>have obtained 404 speech samples.
>>
>>http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/
>
>A fascinating range of audio files of accented readings of a single
>paragraph:
>
>>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.
>
>Wouldn't it be interesting to have a similar site with many voices
>reading the same poem? But which poem?
>
>Best,
>
>T
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