Speech accent archive - nearly 400 samples of people from all over the world reading the same text so that some professors can compare their pronounciation. Interesting idea but I checked the only four samples from the UK and found that the one originating from Birmingham is hardly a Brummie and two others use RP so there's nothing regional about them at all. The only half-way decent one from the UK was from Leicestershire.
The rest are pretty exotic though.
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