An Acoustic Model is only as good as the speech audio that was used to generate it.  The prompts files used in VoxForge help to ensure that we get a good coverage of all the different phonemes in the English Language.  In addition, we also need good coverage of English speech dialects - because people of different regions sometimes pronounce the same words differently.  

Note that your pronunciation dialect may be different than where you currently live (if you were raised in one region and currently live in another).  

Wikipedia defines the following list of dialects that we will use to help categorize the speech we receive:

United States

• General American English - main dialect; if you are unsure of which regional dialect you should use, use this one.
  

Regional Dialects:

• Eastern New England
• New York City and northern New Jersey
• Mid-Atlantic
  
• South
• Inland North
• The Midland
• Midwest
• West

Canada

• Canadian English - main dialect; if you are unsure of which regional dialect you should use, use this one.

Regional Dialects:

• West/Central Canadian
  
• Maritimes
  
• Newfoundland

British Isles

• British English - main dialect; if you are unsure of which regional dialect you should use, use this one.

Regional Dialects:

• English English
• Welsh English
• Scottish English
• Irish-English

Europe 

European English 

Oceania

Australian English
New Zealand English

Asia

Hong Kong English
Indian English
Malaysian English
Philippine English
Singaporean English
Sri Lankan English

Other countries

Bermudian English
Caribbean English
Jamaican English
Liberian English
Malawian English
South African English

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