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Linguist Rick Aschmann spent years creating this painstakingly detailed map of regional American and Canadian dialects. Aschmann has been steadily adding to it as people from all over the U.S. send him audio samples of themselves speaking. In addition to the videos people send him, Aschmann says he made the map from information he found on several language websites, from the Atlas of North American English, and also by watching a lot of online videos of people who he says retain their local dialect well, like politicians, gospel singers and NASCAR drivers.

The International Dialects of English Archive was created in 1997 as the first online archive of primary-source recordings of English dialects and accents as heard around the world.

The archive provides downloadable recordings of accent/dialect speakers from the region you select, text files giving the speakers' biographical details, scholarly commentary and analysis in some cases and, in most cases, an orthographic transcription of the speakers' unscripted speech.