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This table sorts readers by LOCATION. Please note that location does not always represent the reader's actual accent.

Note: Readers add their names to this list on a voluntary basis, and it is by no means a complete list of all the accents in the LibriVox catalog

Reader	Location	Accent	Other Info	Sample
Quinkish (Rachel Lintern)	England > Bristol	Soft West Country accent
Stuart (Stuart Bell)	England > Cambridge	Neutral English accent
Jhiu	England > Durham	South Yorkshire overlaid with RP	precise, light voice but with some range; can read Latin and related languages
RuthieG (Ruth Golding)	England > Kent	RP/BBC English (no regional accent)	Mature voice, clear diction, character voices	Sample
earthcalling (David Barnes)	England > London	BBC English (no regional accent)	Reading style: slow and deliberate	Sample
Peter Why (Peter Yearsley)	England > London	South-east England, with some London colouring
russiandoll (Philippa)	England > London	RP, basically	occasional Essex colouring; some character voices/accents	Sample
Cori (Cori Samuel)	Southern England	Home Counties	Warm, clear and friendly voice	Sample
Justin Brett	South East England	Conservative RP	(can also do Latin, lousy at accents...)	Sample
Mike001 (Michael Dalling)	South East England	South-East English accent (RP)
paradise.camouflage (Andy)	Scotland (Argyll & Bute)	Scottish with slight Irish influences - rural: no whine/wine merger, no glottalisation	alters accent & vocal range for each character's dialogue - can do baritone to alto, & regional accents of Britain, North America and Europe.
Secrets (Sally Ann Cook)	South Wales	Welsh tonality & resonance (Richard Burton's Dialect)
CarlManchester	Northern England	British, slightly northern English, slightly Welsh	Occasionally reads in French

Reader	Location	Accent	Other Info
smijen (Sarah Jennings)	BC > Vancouver area	Ontarian
seanmhogan	Newfoundland & Labrador > St. John's	Fairly neutral Canadian (not much 'eh' :-))	Surprisingly bad NL accent!
Starlite (Esther)	Ontario > North of Toronto	Canadian éh
Tricia G	Ontario > Toronto area	Minnesotan turning to Ontarian
hugh (Hugh McGuire)	Qc > Montreal
Jc (Jc Guan)	Qc > Montreal	EN: Canadian FR: Québécois	Also reads in Spanish, Mandarin, and German (French accent).

Reader	Location	Accent	Other Info	Sample
Steampunk (Jim Christopher)	AZ	Gen Am	Generally non-accented. Quite dull, actually. Probably shouldn't be allowed within 50 yards of a live mic. Not recommended listening for those operating farm equipment or other heavy machinery.
bublsort (E. Tavano)	CA > LA	mild Northeast US
Kayray (Kara Shallenberg)	CA > SD
BellonaTimes	FL
echobase77 (Anna Roberts)	IN	Clear Midwest accent ("no accent"?)	I speak some Spanish and can generally figure out Latin and Greek pronunciations.
DebraLynn	MI > LP	(no accent)
k-rin (Karen Keeney)	MS	Slight Southern, no drawl
thistlechick (Betsie Bush)	MI > UP	Northern Midwest US	Occasional "Whistling S" =)
PersiaRose (Clara Snyder)	Midwest	Midwest accent (no accent)	Can stumble through German pronunciation.
Great Plains	New Hampshire	GenAm	Mild Oregon and Louisiana inflections.
chocoholic (Laurie Anne Walden)	North Carolina	Southern American (Carolinas)
Rick Rodstrom	NY > NYC	NY accent
SmokestackJones (Glen Hallstrom)	Oklahhoma City	None
SilverG (Greg Bowman)	TN	US Neutral		Sample
Jenny (Jenny Lundak)	TX	Gen Am	Grew up in Midwest (IL/OH), lived in CA, currently in TX. Like to play on variations of southern drawls.
JimTheActor (Jim Allman)	TX	Gen Am	No wine-whine merger
gypsygirl (Karen Savage)	Waco, TX	British RP and GenAm; in Spanish, Mexican		UK US Spanish
Esky (Stephen Escalera)	VA

Reader	Location	Accent	Other Info	Sample
mockfrog (Matthew Ward)	Australia > NSW > Newcastle	Cultured or more working class Australian accents	can do various English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Russian, Spanish, German, French & Various American & Canadian

Country	Reader	Location	Accent	Other Info	Sample
Austria	aravis (Elli)		in English: definitely German / In German: no regional accent
Belgium	Julila (Julie VW)	Ghent	Dutch (Standaard Nederlands met Vlaamse tongval); British English (RP with slight Flemish accent)	also reads in French, and a bit of German
Denmark	neckertb	Copenhagen	in English: a mixture of French, German and Danish; in French: no regional accent; in German: I believe a mixture between Danish and french; in Danish: German or French depending on whom I ask	very good at taking an extreme French accent in English
France	Lady Maria	Paris	French accent
Germany	Janie No. 5 (Stephanie König)	Bodensee	Swabian (slightly?)
Italy	daniele		Italian Accent		Sample
Italy > Rome		sirjoh (Sergio)	In Italian: very faint Tuscan accent In English: slight Italian accent; RP as model In French: very slight, undefinable accent; In German: Italian accent.	precise diction and light tenor voice
The Netherlands	anna (Ans Wink)	Maastricht	Heers/Maastrichts
The Netherlands	lezer (Anna Simon)	Gelderland	in English: Dutch; in Nederlands: ABN, met soms een hint Brabants
The Netherlands	bart (Bart de Leeuw)	Utrecht	in English: Dutch; in Nederlands: ABN, met een beetje een zachte g. Mijn r ligt achter in mijn mond en kan ik niet laten rollen

Country	Reader	Location	Accent	Other Info	Sample
India	neerajanagarajan (Neeru Iyer)	Chennai, South India	South-Indian Brahmin accent, I think (if such a thing exists)	Can do a little bit of German tolerably
Taiwan	Semantic Nuance

Country	Reader	Location	Accent	Other Info	Sample
Brazil	Leni		In Portuguese: "carioca" (Rio de Janeiro)

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