A friend sent this link to the Speech Accent Archive at George Mason University. It's such a wonderful idea, and under a Creative Commons license.
I notice they do presume that one's accent is static, and accent's aren't, at least according to my descriptive English instructor. I know my own accent can vary from the blue-collar, small-town Central Illinois accent I grew up with ("Southern" to people from Northern Illinois) to white-collar, educated middle-class small-city Central Illinois. They're recruiting for samples, if anyone is interested in contributing.
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