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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
UK
Reader |
Location |
Accent |
Other Info |
Sample
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Quinkish (Rachel Lintern)
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England > Bristol
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Soft West Country accent
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Stuart (Stuart Bell)
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England > Cambridge
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Neutral English accent
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RuthieG (Ruth Golding)
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England > Kent
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RP/BBC English (no regional accent)
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Mature voice, clear diction, character voices
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Sample
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earthcalling (David Barnes)
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England > London |
BBC English (no regional accent)
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Reading style: slow and deliberate
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Sample
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Peter Why (Peter Yearsley)
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England > London
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South-east England, with some London colouring
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russiandoll (Philippa)
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England > London
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RP, basically
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occasional Essex colouring; some character voices/accents
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Sample
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Cori (Cori Samuel)
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Southern England
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Home Counties
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Warm, clear and friendly voice
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Sample
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Justin Brett
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South East England
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Conservative RP
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(can also do Latin, lousy at accents...)
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Sample
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Mike001 (Michael Dalling)
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South East England |
South-East English accent (RP)
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paradise.camouflage (Andy)
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Scotland (Argyll & Bute)
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Scottish with slight Irish influences - rural: no whine/wine merger, no glottalisation
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alters accent & vocal range for each character's dialogue - can do baritone to alto, & regional accents of Britain, North America and Europe.
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Secrets (Sally Ann Cook)
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South Wales
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Welsh tonality & resonance (Richard Burton's Dialect)
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Canada
Reader |
Location |
Accent |
Other Info |
Sample
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smijen (Sarah Jennings)
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BC > Vancouver area
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Ontarian
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seanmhogan
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Newfoundland & Labrador > St. John's
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Fairly neutral Canadian (not much 'eh' :-))
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Surprisingly bad NL accent!
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Starlite (Esther)
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Ontario > North of Toronto
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Canadian éh
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Tricia G
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Ontario > Toronto area
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Minnesotan turning to Ontarian
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hugh (Hugh McGuire)
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Qc > Montreal
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Jc (Jc Guan)
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Qc > Montreal
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US
Reader |
Location |
Accent |
Other Info |
Sample
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Steampunk (Jim Christopher)
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AZ
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Gen Am
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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.
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bublsort (E. Tavano)
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CA > LA
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mild Northeast US
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Kayray (Kara Shallenberg)
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CA > SD
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BellonaTimes
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FL
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Blanche Dubois, Televangelist, Sophy from my reading of Ferber's What She Wore, NYC character, ala Life of Riley, Eric Idle as upper-class type, Julie Walters imitating roomie Trish in Educating Rita, Vyvyan from The Young Ones, Tony Blair
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Sample
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echobase77 (Anna Roberts)
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IN
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Clear Midwest accent ("no accent"?)
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I speak some Spanish and can generally figure out Latin and Greek pronunciations.
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DebraLynn
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MI > LP
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(no accent)
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k-rin (Karen Keeney)
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MS
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Slight Southern, no drawl
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thistlechick (Betsie Bush)
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MI > UP
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Northern Midwest US
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Occasional "Whistling S" =)
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PersiaRose (Clara Snyder)
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Midwest
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Midwest accent (no accent)
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Can stumble through German pronunciation.
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Great Plains
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New Hampshire
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GenAm
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Mild Oregon and Louisiana inflections.
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chocoholic (Laurie Anne Walden)
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North Carolina
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Southern American (Carolinas)
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Rick Rodstrom
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NY > NYC
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NY accent
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SmokestackJones (Glen Hallstrom)
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Oklahhoma City
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None
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SilverG (Greg Bowman)
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TN
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US Neutral
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Sample
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Jenny (Jenny Lundak)
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TX
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Gen Am
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Grew up in Midwest (IL/OH), lived in CA, currently in TX. Like to play on variations of southern drawls.
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JimTheActor (Jim Allman)
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TX
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Gen Am
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No wine-whine merger
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gypsygirl (Karen Savage)
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TX
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British RP and GenAm; in Spanish, Mexican
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UK US Spanish
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Esky (Stephen Escalera)
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VA
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Australia & NZ
Reader |
Location |
Accent |
Other Info |
Sample
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mockfrog (Matthew Ward)
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Australia > NSW > Newcastle
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Cultured or more working class Australian accents
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can do various English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Russian, Spanish, German, French & Various American & Canadian
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Other Countries
Europe
Country |
Reader |
Location |
Accent |
Other Info |
Sample
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Austria
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aravis (Elli)
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in English: definitely German / In German: no regional accent
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Belgium
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Julila (Julie VW)
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Ghent
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Dutch (Standaard Nederlands met Vlaamse tongval); British English (RP with slight Flemish accent)
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also reads in French, and a bit of German
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Denmark
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neckertb
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Copenhagen
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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
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very good at taking an extreme French accent in English
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France
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Lady Maria
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Paris
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French accent
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Germany
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Janie No. 5 (Stephanie König)
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Bodensee
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Swabian (slightly?)
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Italy
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daniele
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Italian Accent
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Sample
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The Netherlands
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anna (Ans Wink)
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Maastricht
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Heers/Maastrichts
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The Netherlands
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lezer (Anna Simon)
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Gelderland
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in English: Dutch; in Nederlands: ABN, met soms een hint Brabants
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The Netherlands
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bart (Bart de Leeuw)
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Utrecht
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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
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Asia
Country |
Reader |
Location |
Accent |
Other Info |
Sample
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India
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neerajanagarajan (Neeru Iyer)
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Chennai, South India
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South-Indian Brahmin accent, I think (if such a thing exists)
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Can do a little bit of German tolerably
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Taiwan
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Semantic Nuance
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South America
Country |
Reader |
Location |
Accent |
Other Info |
Sample
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Brazil
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Leni
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In Portuguese: "carioca" (Rio de Janeiro)
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