The English Accent Archive
An interesting linguistics project from George Mason University. The Speech Accent Archive has collected hundreds of samples from people all over the world reading a short paragraph in English:
The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different english speakers.
[acknowledgements to eBaum's World]