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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

Accent Help

American Dialect Society

BBC Voices project (1200 recordings of British and Irish voices)

British Library Archival Sound Recordings/Accents and Dialects

Center for Applied Linguistics (Interviews with subjects in most US states and territories, and two Canadian provinces)

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)

PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES

The Free Dictionary, provides a recording of each word, pronounced in American English.

J.C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, London, Longman, 1990. (Provides both American and British English pronunciations of over 40,000 words, in IPA)

Kenyon, John S., and Thomas A. Knott, A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, Merriam, 1944. (Has been revised and updated, and provides pronunciation in IPA.)

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 glossary of rhetorical terms and figures, compiled by Professor Gideon Burton

SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare's Complete Works on-line

Shakespeare Text Search (type in a phrase, find if Shakespeare used it, and where)

Shakespeare's Words; David and Ben Crystal's unsurpassed resource; providing the full text of the plays and poems, a searchable glossary integrated with the text; lists of characters, plot synopses, graphic representation of the characters' relationahips in each play, and more