Resources

International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) 

 https://www.dialectsarchive.com/ 
Internet’s first archive of primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents from around the world. It’s the largest archive of its kind and includes native and non-native speakers of English. Comprehensive and very useful.

 

British Library Sounds – Accents and Dialects
https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects

Includes British dialects, accents from around the world, BBC recordings, early spoken word recordings, and so much more.

 

Sound Comparisons
https://www.soundcomparisons.com/#home

Click on the individual words to hear the differences in pronunciations by region, country, city, and certain specific dialects

 

North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#AudioFilesOfLocalDialects

YouTube links will take you to video samples of American English dialects, with a few Canadian thrown in for good measure.

 

Forvo Pronunciation
https://forvo.com/languages-pronunciations/en/

Words and some sentences recorded by speakers, identified only generally by country, but can be quite useful.

 

University of Wisconsin – Madison
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AAmerLangs

Field recordings of native residents from all 50 states and DC, collected between 1965 and 1970. They visited native residents in all fifty states and D.C.

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Erik Singer Videos

Dialect coach Erik Singer (with whom I coached before creating the General American Accent workshop) takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Informative and fun.

Part 1 - https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A

Part 2 - https://youtu.be/IsE_8j5RL3k

Part 3 - https://youtu.be/Sw7pL7OkKEE