Dialects and Accents of Russia
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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| Russia One | Female, university professor | Russia One |
| Russia Two | Male, actor, Moscow, English poor | Russia Two |
| Russia Three | Female, theatre costumer, Moscow, now living in Louisville, KY , USA | Russia Three |
| Russia Four | Female, grad student, born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine | Russia Four Transcription |
| Russia Five | Female, student, born and raised in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, moved to USA at age fifteen, English fluent | Russia Five |
| Russia Six | Female, medical technologist, born Ukraine,1946, raised in Riga, Latvia, emigrated to USA in her late twenties with just a little English | Russia Six |
| Russia Seven | Male, electronics, born and raised Odessa, 1946, emigrated to USA in his early thirties with no English | Russia Seven Transcription |
| Russia Eight | Female, born 1987, raised Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Student. Well traveled, excellent English, very slight accent | Russia Eight Transcription |
| Russia Nine | 29-year-old white male, born raised in St. Petersburg, Russia. Translator, Russian accent almost imperceptible | Russia Nine Transcription |
| Russia Ten | white female, born 1983 in the former Soviet Republic of Abkhazia, then Sochi. A teacher of English. Accent mild | Russia Ten |
| Russia Eleven | white female, raised Novosibirsk, date of birth not supplied, a professor | Russia Eleven |