(See also Dialects in American English and A Dialect Map of American English)

Regional Variations on Arthur the Rat (standard speech-testing passage)

New York City male Southern Regional (Georgia) male

Midwestern urban (Chicago) female Upper Midwestern (Michigan) older male

Speech Examples from the New England Region

• Talking Country phrases from the border between Vermont and Quebec.
• How They Talk in Happiness, Vermont
• The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English
• How to Pronounce Worcester Mass and other Massachusetts Names
• Watayou, retahdid?, a "Multimedia Introduction to the Boston Accent".

The Mid-Atlantic Region

• A Resource Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Region (New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland)
• Pronunciation and Terminology Tidbits about Upstate New York (RoundTheBend Travel Guide)
• Erie Canal Glossary
• Select Annotated Bibliography on the Speech of Buffalo, N.Y.  (Reynolds)
• Hey HON! The Bawlamerese Lexicon Baltimore, MD
• Eastern Shore Speak (Maryland Eastern Shore)

The State of Pennsylvania

• The Original Lingo of Northeast PA: A Traveler's Dictionary by Mike O'Hara
• The Scrantonese Dictionary
• CoalSpeak The (un)official Schuylkill County, PA lexicon
• The Philadelphia Dialect (Salvucci)
• Pennsylvania Dutch Culture and Language
• Translating West-Central Pennsylvanian (around Altoona and Johnstown)
• The Pittsburghese Site and Guide to Pittsburghese

The Midwest

• Wisconsin Englishes

Examples from the Southern Region

• North Carolina Language and Life Project
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology, University of Virginia, featuring Fountain Hughes, a former slave from Charlottesville, Virginia, born in 1848, interviewed by Hermond Norwood, Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949
• Oral Histories of the American South [North Carolina] Collection
• Alabama and Arkansas samples from the Computerized Language Profiling website.
• Bubba and Clem's Southernese Dictionary and Suthern Speak
• Yat-speak A Lexicon of New Orleans Terminology and Speech

The Mountain States

• Cool Western Slang
• Las Vegas Lingo

The American Southwest

• Oklahoma Dictionary and Texas Talk

The Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii

• A Seattle Lexicon: Lingo from the Far Corner
• Alaskan slang words

Spoken Language Resources from Academic Web Projects

• University of Pennsylvania TELSUR Project, The Phonological Atlas of North America.
• 'Historical Voices' of American Cultural History (Michigan State Univ.)
• Southern Appalachian English web resources (Univ. of South Carolina)
• University of Georgia Linguistic Atlas Projects 'old' site and 'new' site
• Columbia University Spoken Yiddish Language Project  (Articles and links as well as samples of Yiddish speech).
• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)
• Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web, Margaret Vail Anderson.
• Dialects and Accents of North America (multiple voices from most U.S. states; University of Kansas 'International Dialects of English' Archive)
• Speech Accent Archive, George Mason University. Dozens of samples of native and foreign English accents.
• UC Berkeley Lectures and Events (including materials from the UCB Language Center Speech Archives) includes recordings of James Baldwin, Malcom X, Noam Chomsky, and others.
• The Dictionary of American Regional English.
• The American Tongues Project Home Page

Oral History, Folklore and Other Live Speech Samples

• Southern Oral History Program, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Library of Congress American Memory Sound Recordings on the Web
• Oral History Research Center, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
• The Moonlit Road (Southern Suspense Tales)

Slang-Related Web Links (non-region-specific)

• A Dictionary of Slang (with links to many others; UK perspective)
• Steve Callihan's U.S. Local and Regional Lexicons Links

General Web Resources on Spoken American English

• National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Radio Reports (MP3 plus transcripts)
• NCH World Voices (voice samples from a wide range of English dialects).
• National Public Radio Program Archives
• 'Radio Diaries' on NPR (RealAudio) (interviews with transcripts)
• NPR '100 Most Important American Music Works of the 20th Century' Program Series
• PublicRadioFan.com Guide to Public Radio Webcasts Worldwide
• Internet Radio Locator (online radio stations for any regional variety of English)