Australian accent files

Plus you'll hear four volumes of recordings of native speakers, all of it totaling over six and a half hours of materials. You'll also get a PDF transcript of the conversations with native speakers to follow along with the recordings. Australian accents are usually subdivided into the categories of broad , general , and cultivated , with broad representing the strong, "bush" accent that many people are used to hearing in films such as Crocodile Dundee.

Australian accents are fairly similar across the country - surprising for such a large country - but there are some variations which will be apparent in the included recordings.

Most New Zealand Kiwi's have a shared accent as well. All of the sound files are in MP3 format so that you can play them on your computer, load them onto your phone, or burn them to a CD. You'll receive a link via email so that you can download all of the materials as ZIP files directly to your computer. You'll also get future updates for free! Listen to a Sample! He's used the book.

This passage was specially composed using J. Wells' standard lexical sets and allows the dialect researcher to examine a reader's English pronunciation across a wide variety of phonemic contexts. In addition to the sound files in this archive, there are others at this Web site in the following places: Speech Examples - miscellaneous sound files that have been generated in connection with topics that have arisen in newsgroup discussions.

Formant analysis plots - with accompanying sound files. If you're looking for a sound file that has a particular word in it that you know, you may be able to find it by using the English Usage Site Search facility to search on that word. At Links: Audio references there are links to some remote sites at which various sound files can be found.

The WAV files use a sampling frequency 11, Hz with 4-bit quantization, except for one that had originally been sampled at 8, Hz.

Some WAV files have been converted to 8-bit quantization because it was learned that some users were having problems with the 4-bit format. Future submissions to the archive should be sampled at at least 22, Hz. Submitted files will be used to create an MP3 file with 22, sampling rate.

WAV files may be resampled to a lower rate. Actually, there is a difference between Markus Laker's pronunciation and RP. I, the originator of this page, Igor Merfert would like to express my gratitude to every contributor. Many thanks to. Others were converted with GoldWave. The alt.

Igor announced in AUE on 16 June that the archive had been closed at his site and would not reappear there. The webmaster would also like to express his appreciation to all other speakers not explicitly mentioned above.