American Varieties

Where is the Speaker From?

Try this regional dialect quiz!

In this exercise devised by Drs. Cynthia G. Clopper and David B. Pisoni you are to guess where the speaker comes from. Listen to these twelve audio samples. Match them to the area of the country that you think the speaker is from. When you're finished, you can compare your results against the correct answers.

Acoustic research such as that conducted by Clopper and Pisoni is used for a variety of purposes including the development of computer speech understanding systems and strategies for working with the hearing impaired.

For more information visit: The Nationwide Speech Project.

Sponsored by:

National Endowment for the Humanities	William and Flora Hewlett Foundation	Ford Foundation	Rosalind P. Walter	Arthur Vining Davis Foundations	Carnegie Corporation of New York