General Voice Resources
The Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) website provides a sizeable number of links to voice related resources including anatomy and physiology resources, dialect resources, IPA resources and many more. The site also provides listings of publications, conferences and voice trainers.
Dialect Training Resources
http://www.dialectaccentspecialists.com/index.htm
Dialect Accent Specialists, Inc. is run by Dr. David Alan Stern, one of North America’s most well known dialect specialists. Dr. Stern has developed a series of dialect training materials that are available for purchase on this website. The bookwork and tonal placement exercises in his material are exceptional.
http://www.dialectresource.com/index.html
The Dialect Resource website contains the work of Gillian Lane-Plescia, another well known Dialect specialist. Her training CDs are highly regarded by many voice trainers because she uses primary samples to demonstrate sound substitutions and speech patterns.
Paul Meier Dialect Services offers a number of dialect services in various formats. Paul Meier is best known for establishing the IDEA (International Dialects of English Archive) website.
Selected Bibliography of Dialect Resources
Blumenfeld, Robert. Accents: A Manual for Actors. New York: Limelight Editions, 1998
Blunt, Jerry. Stage Dialects. Dramatic Publishing, 1984
Kopf, Ginny. The Dialect Handbook. Orlando: Voiceprint Publishing, 2003
Machlin, Evangeline. Dialects for the Stage. New York: Theatre Books, 1975
Wells, J.C. Accents of English. London: Cambridge University Press, 1982
Transgender Voice
http://www.vch.ca/transhealth/resources/library/tcpdocs/consumer/speech.pdf
The website above contains an article written by Shelagh Davies and Joshua Mira Goldberg. Shelagh Davies is a Speech and Language Pathologists who specializes in voice feminization and Joshua Mira Goldberg is coordinator for the Transgender Health Program at Vancouver Coastal Health. Joshua went through transition in 1996. The information in this article is up to date and trustworthy. It is a must read for anyone seeking help with vocal transition.
http://www.transactioncanada.ca/
This website is dedicated to advancing equal rights, social justice, health care and community access for all transsexual and transgender people in Canada.