Saturday, August 15, 2020

I Enjoin Potato, Yous Enjoin Potarto


'You Say Potato' is a novel majority nigh English linguistic communication accents yesteryear David together with Ben Crystal. As business office of the advertisement for the book's unloose the publishers convey released The You Say Potato Accent Map.

The map is made upward of well recordings of people around the basis pronouncing the give-and-take 'potato'. The map includes a few well clips of famous people similar Brian May together with Stephen Fry, pronouncing the give-and-take 'potato' inwards their ain accents. You tin post away add together your ain vocalism to the map yesteryear only recording your vocalism using the built-in well recording app.


Back inwards 2010 the British Library besides asked people to map their voices inwards lodge to exercise a Google Map of how English linguistic communication is spoken around the world.

The Map Your Voice project is a Google Map of recordings made yesteryear people spell reading the children's flush 'Mr. Tickle' yesteryear Roger Hargreaves. This detail flush was chosen for the hit of English linguistic communication sounds it contains when read out loud.


Phonemica is a actually interesting map of Chinese spoken stories. The projection was conceived equally a agency to save spoken stories inwards PRC equally spoken inwards the local vernacular.

Anyone tin post away tape a flush at domicile together with submit it to the map. Different Chinese languages together with dialects are differentiated on the map yesteryear unlike colored map markers. You tin post away besides filter the results shown on the map yesteryear location, keyword together with linguistic communication / dialect.

If you lot click on a map mark you lot tin post away click through together with psyche to the submitted flush recording.


The most pop interactive webpage on the New York Times website final yr was How Y’all, Youse together with You Guys Talk. This interactive characteristic asks you lot a serial of questions nigh your pronunciation together with role of for certain words and, from the answers, creates a personal dialect map. The resulting heat-map shows you lot which areas of the USA convey dialects similar to you.

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