Voice Over Dictionaries

Accent and Dialect Elimination and Acquisition

Resources to help you gain or eliminate accents or dialects.

Edge Studio

http://www.edgestudio.com/accents.htm

888-321-EDGE

Our team provides extensive accent and dialect elimination and acquisition services for voice over artists, actors, singers, politicians, and public speakers. In-person, via telephone (we only need to hear you), and by Skype. Call 1-888-321-EDGE or email training@edgestudio.com for friendly help.

Hanover Speech and Voice Improvement

http://www.hanoverspeech.com

If you rely on your voice for your profession, you are a professional voice user. This can include singers, actors, teachers, salesmen, clergymen, air traffic controllers, lawyers, doctors, or anyone else who uses his or her voice in the work setting. If your speech is holding you back from achieving your goals, we are here to help you. Take advantage of our speech improvement, accent reduction and voice therapy services from a licensed speech-language pathologist, Fern Hanover!

New York Speech Improvement Services

http://www.nyspeech.com/

212-242-8435

Our instructors help actors, business professionals, politicians and professional speakers, students, individuals dealing with the public, or anyone just wishing to achieve his/her personal best. New York Speech Improvement Services trains 250 clients per week, 80% of which are looking to shed a foreign accent or regional dialect, or business executives looking to expand their public speaking abilities. The remaining 20% are entertainers from all branches of the industry.

Pamela Vanderway's Dialect 411

http://dialect411.com/

Voice and dialect information for professional actors and the people who hire them.

The International Dialects of English Archive

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/index.htm

A free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts.

Dictionaries, Pronunciation, & Mispronunciation

Tools for voice-over artists

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/mispron.html

Here are the 100 words most often mispronounced English words ("mispronunciation" among them). There are spelling rules in English,even if they are difficult to understand, so pronouncing a word correctly usually does help you spell it correctly. Several common errors are the result of rapid speech, so take your time speaking, correctly enunciating each word. Careful speech and avid reading are the best guides to correct spelling.

Answers.com

http://www.answers.com/

Answers.com marries the best of community-driven questions and answers with hundreds of respected and trusted editorial reference books. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/about/#ixzz1reLnRYZY

AudioEloquence

http://audioeloquence.com/

A very handy pronunciation and research site for voice over narrators. Make sure to check out their "Tips, Tricks, Tactics" section if you are still stumped on a particular pronunciation.

Bartleby.com

http://www.bartleby.com/

The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

Cal Poly Pomona Asian Name Pronunciation Guide

http://www.csupomona.edu/~pronunciation/

The purpose of this website to assist with the accurate pronunciation of common first and last Asian names. Very helpful for voice actors recording for global projects.

Dictionary.com

http://www.Dictionary.com

It’s just what the name implies. Words that you search are retrieved with their definition and an audio pronunciation of the searched word.

Double-Tongued Dictionary

http://www.doubletongued.org/

The Double-Tongued Dictionary records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English, with a focus on slang, jargon, and new words. This site strives to record terms and expressions that are absent from, or are poorly covered in, mainstream dictionaries.

Edge Studio's Voice Over Pronunciation Mistake Chart

http://www.edgestudio.com/voice-over-mistake-chart

On this page, click the "Mistakes: Pronunciation" tab. You'll see a list of THE MOST COMMON FREQUENTLY MISPRONOUNCED WORDS VOICE ACTORS MAKE.

Fonetiks.org

http://www.fonetiks.org/

Online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages.

Forvo

http://www.forvo.com/

Touted as the largest pronunciation guide in the world, this tool goes way beyond spoken English. The top languages covered are English, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Arabic, German, Czech and Swedish. And for the occasional Star Trek commercial, Klingon is also supported.

Google Translate

http://translate.google.com/

Google's free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages. Be careful - Google Translate does not apply grammatical rules.

How J Say

http://www.howjsay.com/

A free online talking dictionary of English pronunciation. It has over 14 million entries.

Inogolo

http://inogolo.com/

Welcome to inogolo-- the practical, easy-to-use website devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people, places, and miscellaneous stuff. The site contains a searchable database of names with both phonetic and audio pronunciations in English.

International Dialects of English Archive

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/

IDEA was created in 1997 as a free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings. All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and include both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages.

MediLexicon

http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php

Search for medical terms using this medical dictionary. The dictionary contains definitions and explanations of thousands of medical terms and also features pronunciations and abbreviations.

Medline Plus

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

A medical dictionary with pronunciation guide.

Merriam Webster

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

Hear the correct pronunciation of any word.

MyMemory

http://mymemory.translated.net/

MyMemory is the world's largest Translation Memory. MyMemory is 100% free. The site gives you quick access to a large number of translations originating from professional translators, customers and multilingual web content.

NLS Other Writings

http://www.loc.gov/nls/other/sayhow.html

A pronunciation guide to names of public figures.

NLS Other Writings ABC Book

http://www.loc.gov/nls/other/ABC.html

The ABC book a pronunciation guide.

North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns

http://aschmann.net/AmEng/

Pronunciation patterns and map of North American dialects.

Pronounce Names

http://www.pronouncenames.com/

The dictionary of name pronunciation.