This page is an unofficial, mobile-friendly interface to SoundComparisons.com. It only rearranges the original site's content for small screens. It is not made, endorsed or maintained by the Sound Comparisons team.
All recordings, phonetic transcriptions, word lists, language varieties, regions and map locations come from Sound Comparisons. Recordings play directly from their server, and the text data is a copy of what their public site serves, refreshed weekly.
Sound Comparisons was founded by Paul Heggarty, with many contributors who recorded, transcribed and edited the material. See the full list of contributors on the original website.
Heggarty, P., Shimelman, A., Abete, G., Anderson, C., Sadowsky, S., Paschen, L., Maguire, W., Jocz, L., Aninao, M. J., Wägerle, L., Dërmaku-Appelganz, D., do Couto e Silva, A. P., Lawyer, L. C., Cabral, A. S. A. C., Walworth, M., Michalsky, J., Koile, E., Runge, J. & Bibiko, H.-J. (2019). Sound Comparisons: A new resource for exploring phonetic diversity across language families of the world. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, 280–284.
Please cite the original work, not this page.
The Sound Comparisons datasets are published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This page is non-commercial and does not alter the recordings or transcriptions.
Source code: github.com/xanguera/soundcomparisons. Map tiles © Esri and OpenStreetMap contributors.