Harvard University Press and Safari Books Online joined forces to launch an online digital edition of  the Dictionary of American Regional English.

Safari Books Online announced on Monday the successful launch of daredictionary.com, which was developed with Harvard University Press. DARE, an authoritative record of American speech, is now available online.

"We at Harvard University Press could not be more proud to be using new digital tools to bring DARE to an even wider audience," Director of Harvard University Press William P. Sisler said in a statement.

Founded in 1913, Harvard University Press continues to be a leading publisher of convergent works in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Officials from Safari Books Online said the website marks the first time DARE brings a dynamic, user-friendly digital experience to its audience, a wide range of scholars, researchers, and aficionados of American regional nuance.

The new website transforms the dictionary's six print volumes and 50 years of unparalleled linguistic research into an interactive, multimedia tool while giving users access to audio and new content.

Some of its features includes "state-of-the-art" search of DARE's 60,000 entries, audio of 5,000 recordings gathered by fieldworkers and access to DARE's 1,600-question survey administered between 1965 and 1970

"In addition to designing and developing the online digital edition of DARE, we are so pleased to successfully bring previously inaccessible research, such as DARE's field surveys and audio recordings of American speech, into a compelling user-interface experience," Safari Books Online said in a statement.