Received pronunciation (RP) was an accent of high prestige in British society as it is associated with the social elite and the well-educated.
However, nowadays, the RP pronunciation is spoken by 2-3% of the British population.
This project aims to preserve RP by analyzing its features through the late Queen Elizabeth II, whose accent was seen as a hallmark of RP.
For the purpose of this study, we have divided our data into three different decades: the 1950s, the 1990s and the 2010s.
This is… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/rai-nam/GodSaveTheQueen.
