The collection includes audio- and text-clips, graphics and full transcripts from 40 speakers of American dialects from New York to Georgia, with most from North Carolina. You may search by narrative theme or by birth date, ranging from 1885-1915. The original tapes were collected in 1979.
     If you have a direct connection, click  here  to hear the original tapeclips.
     If you are modem-connected, click  here to try streaming audio. (Its smoothness will relate to your connection and computer processor speeds).