Accents Table
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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
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|- | LINK (NAME) | STATE, COUNTRY, REGION, ETC. (entries are ordered by this field, alphabetically please) | ACCENT | OTHER INFO | SAMPLE
UK
| Reader | Location | Accent | Other Info | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucy_k_p (Lucy Perry) | England > Bath | Neutral English accent | Born in the Black Country, I currently live in Bath but have never managed to pick up much of the accent of either. Those from the Black Country think I 'talk posh,' those in Bath think I 'sound common.' I speak quickly, but am told I have good enunciation. I generally try to do character voices. | Sample |
| Quinkish (Rachel Lintern) | England > Bristol | Soft West Country accent | ||
| elaineandsparky (Elaine Webb) | England > Bristol | South West England accent | I do character voices and I have lived in Bristol all my life. | |
| 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 |
| Boojumuk (Kevin Green) | England > Lancashire | General northern England, but can manage a few regional accents on request! | I usually try to put a few different accents into my readings to differentiate between characters. | |
| David Richardson | England > Lancashire/London UK | English RP | Mellow/Rich. 'Scouse' on Saturday nights. | Sample |
| earthcalling (David Barnes) | England > London | BBC English (no regional accent) | Reading style: slow and deliberate | Sample |
| Nicholas19 (Nicholas James Bridgewater) | England > London | Mid-Atlantic English accent, General American/Upstate New York | ||
| Peter Why (Peter Yearsley) | England > London | South-east England, with some London colouring | ||
| ravells (Ravi Shankar) | England > London | RP with some light Malaysian Indian notes | I do character accents. My natural voice is rather nasal. | |
| russiandoll (Philippa) | England > London | RP, basically | Occasional Essex colouring; some character voices/accents | Sample |
| CliveCatterall | England > Hereford | South-East England. More specifically Guildford. More specifically still about 2/3 of the way up the High Street in the pub behind the Holy Trinity Church | ||
| gemlad | England > Oxford | Northern England (Yorkshire) | I've been living in Oxford for >10 years so my accent is not as broad as some. | |
| carolb (Carol Box) | England > Surrey (South East) | RP | A film director friend described my voice as light husky, bright yet mellow, compassionate and passionate, flowing...but I think he had an ear infection at the time! My first solo, a book of fairy tales, involved a cast of many character voices. | |
| Mango (Joe Pilsbury) | England > West Midlands | Can do a BBC Non-accent, Welsh, Gen Am, Scottish and Polish accents as well. | ||
| CarlManchester | England > Northern | British, slightly northern English, slightly Welsh | Occasionally reads in French | Sample |
| Cori (Cori Samuel) | England > South East | RP (via an Estuary.) | Warm, clear and friendly voice | Sample |
| Justin Brett | England > South East | Conservative RP | (Can also do Latin, lousy at accents...) | Sample |
| Mike001 (Michael Dalling) | England > South East | 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. | |
| catrose (Charlotte Duckett) | North Wales | Fairly Welsh. | Not incredibly Welsh , but Welsh enough! | |
| Secrets (Sally Ann Cook) | South Wales | Welsh tonality & resonance (Richard Burton's Dialect) | ||
| MorganScorpion (Julia Morgan) | UK | English RP | Also reads Latin, French, a little Classical Greek and Mandarin (Pinyin only so far) |
Canada
| Reader | Location | Accent | Other Info | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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). |
US
| 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 | ||
| David Wales | CA>LA | General American | Oh my. Welsh genes for speaking voice (the singing ones skipped me entirely). Grew up on the West Coast and the South; have lived in Southern California for 40 years. The Southern influence produces a bit broader vowels. Have had some public speaking training. Can do some voice inflection but not really character voices. | |
| prwells32 (Patrick Wells) | CA > Norcal | American, Non-specific | US | |
| Kayray (Kara Shallenberg) | CA > SD | |||
| msfry (Michele Fry) | LA, Southeast US | General American, no particular accent. | Raised in the South by a Yankee father and Parisian French mother, then married into a Cajun family, I can do some French pronounciation, feign a southern drawl, redneck, & Cajun. |
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| DeRamos (Ryan DeRamos) | CA | Late 20th Century, suburban Southern Californian (if such a designation exists) | Recording voice varies by character and content (results may vary). | |
| BellonaTimes | FL | |||
| Margaret (Margaret Espaillat) | FL > Orlando | Southern CA | I speak Spanish, to me I sound Mexican, to Mexicans I probably sound American. | English sample |
| bobgon55 (Bob González) | FL > TPA | Standard American, "Mid-Atlantic" (blend of Standard US and RP); in Spanish, South American & Castilian. | Born/raised in Tampa. Lived in Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Wisconsin. University trained in stage speech, have done numerous accents, tend to idiosyncratically pronounce certain words. "Mid-Atlantic" learned in graduate training, once thought standard for performing classics in US. Not sure if it is standard anymore. | Standard American Mid-Atlantic Spanish |
| MaryAnnSpiegel | IL | Gen Am | From Western IL, the regional home of Gen Am. Limited to my native accent. Passable German pronunciations. | |
| echobase77 (Anna Roberts) | IN | Clear Midwest accent ("no accent"?) | I speak some Spanish and can generally figure out Latin and Greek pronunciations. | |
| alg1001 Amy Gramour | ME > Northern | Mainly a South of Boston Massachusetts accent with a Northern Maine influence (twenty years in both). | ||
| GayleCato | MI | (May not be a typical MI accent ... ) | ||
| DebraLynn | MI > LP | (no accent) | ||
| thistlechick (Betsie Bush) | MI > UP | Northern Midwest US | Occasional "Whistling S" =) | |
| PersiaRose (Clara Snyder) | Midwest | Midwest accent (no accent) | Can stumble through German pronunciation. | |
| Tulip27 (Michael Wolf) | MN | English: British RP, north Midlands, GenAm German: Northwestern (Northrhine-Westphalia) |
Accent varies based on genre, text, setting, etc. Though now located in the US, I'm more confident with British varieties. I also speak German and Dutch and my French pronunciation is good enough to contribute short pieces in French | US UK |
| k-rin (Karen Keeney) | MS | Slight Southern, no drawl | ||
| 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 | ||
| commonsparrow3 (Maria Kasper) | NY > Rochester (born and lived here all my life) | Flat Rat-chester accent, including the telltale Rochester vowel shift and very American R's. | Other: Can make a stab at pronouncing occasional brief bits of French. Hopeless at accents or character voices. | Sample |
| SmokestackJones (Glen Hallstrom) | Oklahhoma City | None | ||
| Lynnet (Lynne Thompson) | OR > Portland | Southern British English but with moments of Portland | Born: south London, England. Grew up: Kent, southern England. Also spent time in Coventry, England and Cwmbran, south Wales. | |
| 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 | |
| Bill Mosley | TX > Central TX | Raised in a suburb of Houston, studied Spanish and Greek, can translate southern drawl. | ||
| AmateurOzmologist (Miriam Esther Goldman) | TX > Houston | Sort of pan-american WWII era accent. Speaks Hebrew passably well, but in a painfully American accent. | ||
| gypsygirl (Karen Savage) | TX > Waco | British RP and GenAm; in Spanish, Mexican | Native accent is British, but have been living in US since teens. | UK US Spanish |
| Esky (Stephen Escalera) | VA | |||
| Oxenhandler (Peter Oxenhandler) | New England | Born: Boston, Massachusetts. Grew up: Boston, Massachusetts. Currently live in: Maine and Massachusetts. Lived in New York City (20 years. I enjoy affecting accents. | ||
| lharri (Laura Harrington) | Northeastern USA | |||
| Samanem (Dennis Smith) | USA > Southeast | Gen Am | Bass/Baritone |
Australia & NZ
| 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 | |
| Aspergine | Australian | Can range from Sydney eastern-suburbs-tertiary-educated to colourful larrikin inflected. |
Other Countries
Europe
| Country | Reader | Location | Accent | Other Info | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | aravis (Elli) | In English: definitely German In German: no regional accent |
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| Austria | J_N (Julia Niedermaier) | English: British with an Austrian-German accent; German: no dialect, but German native speakers would probably recognize me as Austrian; |
born and raised in Vienna (AT); studied for a year in Newcastle (UK); I might at some point try my hand at French or Japanese - be afraid, be very afraid | English German | |
| 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?) | ||
| Germany | bropops4 (malone) | Leipzig | Midwest (Kansas), USA | a tolerably good reader of French (check Listeners wanted, Apollinaire, Alcools), a very good reader of Latin, prose and poetry (I'm sorry, but I am. See, or rather hear, the catalog) A pretty good reader of ancient Greek and German. I can stumble through Spanish and Italian | |
| Italy | daniele | Italian Accent | Sample | ||
| Italy | mgt (Maria Grazia Tundo) | Bari | English | ||
| Italy | Riccardo (Riccardo Fasol) | Italian: No accent English: Italian accent |
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| 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 | ||
| Norway | Kristingj (Kristingj) | Oslo | English accent is closer to neutral British, but tend to sometime mix American and British. Norwegian: Somewhat neutral, but still a hint of accent from Eastfold / Ostfold | ||
| Spain | tux753 (Tux) | Madrid | Spanish (of Madrid) not too strong | ||
| Sweden | rowland (Lars Rolander) | Linkoping | in English: Fairly neutral, like to play with voices though: in German: Maybe a bit influenced by Hessen, but fairly neutral: in Swedish: No particular accent, but can do several dialects |
Asia
| 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 | |
| Philippines | JohanLiebert
(April Gonzales) |
Cavite | English: British with little American accent on some long readings
Tagalog: Caviteñong Tagalog |
OTHER INFO: I lived in the Southern Tagalog area for most of my life so, my Bisaya is a bit accented with Tagalog | English Tagalog Bisaya |
| Taiwan | Semantic Nuance |
South America
| Country | Reader | Location | Accent | Other Info | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | AnaESL | In Portuguese: Paulistana (São Paulo capital) | |||
| Brazil | Leni | In Portuguese: "carioca" (Rio de Janeiro) |
