I've heard his recording of the Burmese Maha Paritta Pali. Having stayed in US for many years, he does try to make his pronunciation "international", though with an obvious Burmese accent. There are only a few places where he slips into the Burmese pronunciation. It's not very singsong in manner, and he seems to make great effort in accuracy. It's probably good enough if one wishes to have a feel of Pali pronunciation.

kb

jadhao@... wrote thus at 14:22 11/10/2010:

> hi. MP3 files of some paritta and other chants by Ven. U. Silananda and others are available on Buddhanet. Pronounciations in these are correct. Entire tipitaka may not be available on net in audio format. But some chantings are sure available. They can give a lots of idea. You may not need entire tipitaka for learning pronounciations. If you are able to learn how to pronounce all letters, a few chantings should be enough in my view.
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>R.O. Jadhao
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lennart Lopin <novalis78@...>
>To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Mon, Oct 11, 2010 7:31 am
>Subject: Re: [Pali] audio tipitaka?
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>Dear Frank,
>
>We had tried a couple of times (locally) to get some Sri Lankan monks (esp.
>because of their Indian pronunciation) to recite or even just read Suttas,
>have someone record that, and upload it - it would solve the mystery once
>and for all for many of those who pick up Pali and are at a loss how to
>pronounce properly. Especially are larger body of sound recordings would be
>very helpful in letting the proper pronunciation "sink in".
>
>I guess, one day, someone will do it :-) At least from Sri Lanka I know that
>(in some forest monasteries) they actually try to make the pronunciation as
>"authentic" as possible (well, as far as you can reconstruct it anyways -
>Bhante Sumedha Bhadra comes to my mind, for example)
>
>metta,
>
>Lennart
>
>On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM, frank <fcckuan@...> wrote:
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>> An idea occurred to me today, as I was lamenting that the most recent
>> sutta readings recorded on this site
>> http://www.suttareadings.net/audio/index.html were from 2006.
>>
>> If we were to crowdsource and wikify a similar project, it would not be
>> hard to quickly have an audio tipitaka in both english and pali (audio
>> recitation).
>>
>> For example, suppose 50 english speakers spent an hour a week to read
>> one sutta and record an .mp3 of it. In 3 weeks, we could have the entire
>> majjhima nikaya in audio. Similarly with the pali MN.
>>
>> Has this already been done in pali? I imagine audio recordings of monks
>> reciting the tipitaka are likely to exist already.
>>
>> -Frank
>>
>>
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