Wedding Vowels — the Joey-Angela Merger
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2021-09-27

Since Joey and I are going to get married (to each other!) we decided to record some vowels. My accent has the trap-bath split, while Joey's has the father-bother merger, the cot-caught merger, and the Mary–marry–merry merger. 

The vowels shown (in International Phonetic Alphabet notation) in the speech bubbles are basically what the wikipedia entries for those mergers and splits say they are likely to be. They might not be 100% accurate for our specific accents, but they at least show which vowels are the same and which are different. The speech bubbles and closed captions only show the vowels that differ between our accents in IPA; I did not attempt to transcribe the rest of the words. I have a Masters in Linguistics, but I am by no means an expert at phonemic or phonetic transcription.