"Please call Stella...."
If you don't already know about the Speech Accent Archive, you should check it out. You can hear people from all over the word reading the same English 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."
It's a silly paragraph, but it's designed to demonstrate different accents. Some of us on IRC decided to record our own, so now you can hear mine as well. If you haven't heard my voice before, now you know what I sound like.
It's a little noisy, I was straining my voice a little, and I just realized I skipped part("with her"), but that's okay.
"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."
It's a silly paragraph, but it's designed to demonstrate different accents. Some of us on IRC decided to record our own, so now you can hear mine as well. If you haven't heard my voice before, now you know what I sound like.
It's a little noisy, I was straining my voice a little, and I just realized I skipped part("with her"), but that's okay.