He received an Honors in Phonetics and Dialects from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in London; a BA (Honors) in English and American Literature from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England; and a Certificate of Proficiency in Phonetics (first class) from the University of London.
In addition, Meier is the author and publisher of dozens of smaller books, CDs, and custom recordings of close to 200 plays and musicals.
His Voicing Shakespeare ebook[8] addresses the linguistic challenges of Shakespearean language while explaining such terms as iambic pentameter, alexandrine, tetrameter, enjambment, trochee, spondee, pyrrhic and epic caesura.
With David Crystal supervising the dialect work, the play was produced for the stage, as a radio drama, and as a DVD.
[11] Meier created IDEA in 1998 as the first online archive of primary-source recordings of English dialects and accents from around the world.