Scripted speech

Unscripted speech

- over 140 sets of high-quality recordings, including reading of sentences, passages, and individual interviews;
- identifies segmental and suprasegmental difficulties in learning English pronunciation by learners from Hong Kong, different dialectal regions of mainland China, and South Asia.

Scripted speech

provides a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and were carefully transcribed with International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Scripted speech
Unscripted speech

- was created in 1998 as the internet’s first archive of primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents as heard around the world.
- with roughly 1,500 samples from 120 countries and territories, and more than 170 hours of recordings.
- IDEA is now the largest archive of its kind.

YouGlish is an online tool and website that provides language learners with real-life examples of how words or phrases are pronounced in different contexts. It utilizes YouTube videos to find instances of the word or phrase being spoken by native speakers, allowing users to listen to the pronunciation and observe its usage in various sentences. YouGlish can be a helpful resource for improving pronunciation and understanding how words are spoken in authentic speech.