Spanish Phonetics and Phonology: Spanish Language

This catalog shows audiovisual samples of Spanish spoken all over Latin America and Spain. You can view the transcription of the text as well as get descriptive information regarding the language variety spoken in that particular region or country.

The Dialectoteca del Español is an innovative way to experience the diversity of Spanish pronunciation. It is an audiovisual library, which uses speech samples from a wide variety of native speakers to document the most representative patterns in the pronunciation of modern spoken Spanish. The site also includes descriptions of the factors that cause allophonic variation, maps that identify the main dialectal regions, orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of the interviews, descriptions of the main dialectal features, and exercises that allow users to check their ability to recognize Spanish dialects based on their phonetic properties.

The Digital Catalog of the Sounds of Spanish is an archive of dialectally varied, spoken language data from throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

The corpus currently consists of over 500,000 words from 97 bilingual speakers living in Texas. Video files, audio files, full transcripts, and POS annotations are available for download. Register to request free access.