Dialects and Accents of India
The archive provides:
In a small number of cases, you will also find a narrow phonetic transcription of the sample (see Phonetic Transcriptions for a complete list).
The recordings average four minutes in length and feature both the reading of one of two standard passages, and some unscripted speech. The two passages, Comma Gets a Cure (currently our standard passage), and The Rainbow Passage (used in our earliest recordings), may be accessed from the menu bar to your right.
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Dialect Samples
To properly play a sound sample, you may first need to save it to your own computer. To display the various 'save' options, PC users should right-click on the desired sample below; Mac users should press the Control key while clicking. A high-speed connection to the Internet may allow you to play the file simply by clicking it once or twice.| Sound Sample | Basic Information | Text Files |
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| India One | Female, 20's, student from New Delhi | India One |
| India Two | Female, 20's, student from Southern India | India Two |
| India Three | Male, 20's, student from Southern India | India Three |
| India Four | Male, 20's, graduate student from Northern India | India Four |
| India Five | Female, born 1972, student, Trivandrum, Kerala | India Five |
| India Six | Male, born 1981, student, southern India | India Six |
| India Seven | Female, born 1979 in Gujarat, India, but raised in Zambia | India Seven |
| India Eight | female, born 1979, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh | India Eight Transcription |
| India Nine | male, born 1979, Nasik | India Nine |
| India Ten | male, born 1977, Hyderabad | India Ten |
| India Eleven | female, born 1983, Jamnagar, raised Gujarat, psychologist | India Eleven |
| India Twelve | female, born 1966, raised Hyderabad, emigrated to the USA 1982 | India Twelve Phonetic Transcription |
| India Thirteen | male, 24, born 1986, raised Mangalore, Karnataka, student | India Thirteen |