Links
Paul Meier Dialect Services provides reliable links to other sites of interest
in acting, theatre, film, phonetics, dialects, theatre training etc. Paul has
professional connection with many of the organizations listed. If you know of a site that
belongs here, or wish to suggest a reciprocal link, e-mail Paul.
ACTORS' TOOLS
Log It! Track It! Book It! The standard in performer organizational tools
ACTORS' UNIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Actor's Equity
AFTRA (American Federation of
Television & Radio Artists)
SAG (Screen Actors Guild)
DIALECT RESOURCES ONLINE
American Dialect Society
BBC Voices project (1200 recordings of British and Irish voices)
Dialect Resource (Dialect
tapes by Gillian Lane-Plescia)
Dialectology at
Leeds (Information on the Survey of English Dialects)
Dictionary of American Regional
English
IDEA (International Dialects
of English Archive)
Irish slang
North
Carolina Language and Life Project
Scots language -- a guide
Speech Accent Archive (foreign language speakers reading the same English text)
Stoller System (Dialect Coaching and Design by Amy Stoller)
Telsur Project (A
Phonological Atlas of North America)
Vincent Voice Library (Many thousands of voice recordings of people both famous and obscure; many playable online)
Yorkshire Dialect Verse (native Yorkshire poets reading their compositions in dialect)
DRAMA SCHOOLS AND ACTING TRAINING
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Theatre
departments in US universities)
Conference of Drama Schools (British Drama Schools)
FILM RESOURCES
International Movie Data Base
LANGUAGES
Babel Fish Translation (translate a
block of text from any language into any other)
In Search of the
First Language (A PBS Nova TV program transcript)
World Wide Words (Michael
Quinion explores the origins and uses of unusual words)
RECORDING SOFTWARE
Audacity (a free, open source, easy-to-use program that let's you record and edit sound files in a variety of formats including mp3; be sure to also install LAME, essential if you are also making mp3 files.)
WavePad (a free, open source, easy-to-use program that let's you record and edit sound files in a variety of formats including mp3)
RHETORIC
Silva Rhetoricae (The Forest of Rhetoric (a comprehensive glossary of rhetorical terms and figures, compiled by Professor Gideon Burton)
SHAKESPEARE ONLINE
Shakespeare's Complete Works
on-line
Shakespeare Text
Search (type in a phrase, find if Shakespeare used it, and where)
SINGING
Vocal Process (Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher)
THEATRE ASSOCIATIONS
American Association of Community
Theatre
Directory of Outdoor
Drama (US)
VOICE-OVER
VOICES (Kansas City's premier voice and on-camera talent group)
VOICE, SPEECH AND PHONETICS SITES
Fitzmaurice Voicework
International Phonetic
Association
IPA Handbook
IPA Keyboard. (No download required; allows you to create phonetic unicode text, which you may then simply cut and paste into your own document.)
Kristin Linklater
SIL International (Phonetic fonts and more)
SAMPA Computer readable
phonetic alphabet
University of Iowa Phonetics
(great animated graphics of the speech tract in action)
VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers
Association)
VASTA Professional Index
Voice + Speech
(Website by Eric Armstrong)
Vowels and Consonants
