The recording quality is not all that good, as I don't have very good equipment at home, and I feel rather rusty on IPA segments. Still, I do think some improvement is needed in the WP recordings. I'd be grateful for any suggestions for improvements, or offers of better recordings.
I complained recently about some of Wikipedia's sound recordings illustrating various IPA vowels and consonants on their IPA Help page. I've made a few new recordings which I'm offering to insert in place of the recordings that I think are inadequate, but I haven't yet published them. You can see them in the right-hand column of the Wikipedia table that I've copied into my "sandbox", along with various observations. The table is still missing the vowel [ɒ]; I have made a recording of it but not yet put it into the table.
The recording quality is not all that good, as I don't have very good equipment at home, and I feel rather rusty on IPA segments. Still, I do think some improvement is needed in the WP recordings. I'd be grateful for any suggestions for improvements, or offers of better recordings.
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17/4/2016 12:34:18 pm
Make sure you record [ɒ] and not [ɔ]. That little difference is part of the golden lining of RP. The IPA still expects [ɒ] - [ɔː] (LOT - TAUGHT), and not [ɔ] - [oː], which is Home Counties SBE (i.e. regional). There's been a lot of talk ever since Gimson about RP changing to [oː], and Harrington found the Queen was saying [oː] but it doesn't seem to have got any further. But I haven't seen any hint yet that RP might be changing [ɒ] for LOT. Wikström reported instances of [ɔ] for LOT, but he was studying a mixed group of RP and "near-RP". Near-RP is the RP community's euphemism for Home Counties SBE who would have [ɔ] for LOT anyway.
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