Speech Accent Archive

The Speech Accent Archive is a great tool for ESL students to learn phonology in a different way. Knowing that ESL students come from various countries, this website is designed to help learners perceive accents in order to change the pronunciation. By displaying real-person audio materials from about 400 different places, The Speech Accent Archive aims to provide a comprehensive library which keeps updating by collecting samples from volunteers. It also includes a section called "native phonetic inventory" which mainly analyzes the unique consonants and vowels from different dialects. An important page of references is also included to build a creditable educational website. However, I think this educational website could be more effective if it could add on more visual materials for articulating sounds. Also, though I love the design of clicking regions from global map, a systematical chart of every single sound's dialect would be useful for both learners and teachers to look up.