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who is amy stoller? what can she do for you?

Amy Stoller is an award-winning dialect coach based in New York City.

She teaches accents and dialects to performers, and American English speech and diction to non-performers.

If you’re a producer or director, she’ll guide your cast in creating a consistent vocal world in support of your production.

If you’re a performing artist, she’ll help you hone your ability to “suit the word to the action.”

If you work in another field, she’ll help you develop a readily understandable speech that improves your chances of employment or promotion. 

 

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  • links & more links

    • Internet Resources for Voice & Speech Professionals
      I edit this lengthy links list for VASTA, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. Updated whenever I have time. Below is a considerably shorter list of links, prepared with my clients in mind. Not a client yet? Go ahead and click anyway!

  • phonetics 101

    • International Phonetics Association
      The official website of the IPA includes many useful pages of its own, plus a links page.
    • Introduction to Phonetics
      The University of Lausanne Institute of Linguistics presents this excellent internet primer on articulation of speech sounds, including IPA symbols with accompanying audio files. In English and French.

  • dynamic ipa charts

  • animations

    • Phonetics Flash Animation Project
      The University of Iowa shows you how the phonetic sounds of American English, German, and Spanish are made – using animated articulatory diagrams, step-by-step descriptions, and audio-video illustrations of sounds.
    • Sounds of the IPA
      The University of Sheffield presents these audio-video files. Click on the symbols to see audio-video of speakers and animated diagrams of articulation.
    • Interactive Saggital Section
      Daniel Currie Hall designed this movable oral tract on the University of Toronto’s website. Select articulations and see them in action!

  • audio

    • Daniel Jones pronouncing the Cardinal Vowels
      Universiteit Utrecht presents these invaluable demonstrations by phonetician Daniel Jones, recorded in 1956.
    • International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA)
      Brainchild of colleague Paul Meier, with assistance by Shawn Muller. An outstanding collection of primary source recordings, in English, of speakers in both English-language dialects and accents of other languages. (I’m Associate Editor for NYC.)
    • Speech Accent Archive
      George Mason University’s useful collection of sound files of speakers from many backgrounds, each reading a short sample paragraph in English.

  • vocal anatomy

  • warm-ups

  • blogs & podcasts

    • John Wells’s phonetic blog
      Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, UCL, J.C. Wells is also the editor of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (for English), and the author of Accents of English.
    • Glossonomia
      Glossonomia, Conversations on the Sounds of Speech is a podcast by my colleagues Eric Armstrong and Phil Thompson. Each week they talk about a different vowel or consonant sound in English.
    • The Voice Guy
      Dedicated to supporting the professional and aspiring actor with how-to’s, blog entries, podcasts and video-podcasts on voice work and its integration with the actor process. No longer updated, but always worth a visit.
    • Language Log
      Founded by Linguists Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum, with posts by Arnold Zwicky, Ben Zimmer, Victor Mair, Bill Poser, Heidi Harley, Roger Shuy, Geoff Nunberg, Eric Bakovic, Sally Thomason, Barbara Partee, and John Mc Whorter, and sundry others.
    • DCBlog (David Crystal)
      Widely published, linguist David Crystal is perhaps best known for editing The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, and as the author of The Stories of English.
    • Word.
      The Online Journal on African American English. If you think it’s “bad,” “sloppy,” or “lazy” English, you couldn't be more wrong.