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Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Keep getting "Failed to generate speech. Please try again." on Brave + Chrome. HTZc3SNl.js:1 Failed to generate speech: Error: Invalid API response format at Z (HTZc3SNl.js:1:29240)

Same here. I was hoping to type in "Dos cerverzas por favor" and hear it shout "TWO BEEROS HERE PEDRO".

I did finally get it to generate something using the "Patient man" persona, and "Dos cerverzas por favor" does actually sound like a brit struggling with their Spanish pronunciation.

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Keep getting "Failed to generate speech. Please try again." on Brave + Chrome. HTZc3SNl.js:1 Failed to generate speech: Error: Invalid API response format at Z (HTZc3SNl.js:1:29240)

the nature presenter is broken but the others work

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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"British accent" Who uses this term? English, Welsh and Scottish accents sound nothing like each other!

The reality is that no accent (not even english ones) sound like each other technically. Consider a south east accent with a scouse accent, for example. Both English, both nothing like each other.

I believe the correct expression would be "British accents".

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"British accents are known for their pronunciation patterns, intonation, and rhythm, which differ from American, Australian, or other English accents. A British accent generator focuses on these speech characteristics to create audio that sounds natural and familiar to UK listeners." What kind of Slop is this? British accent is different from other English accents?

I think the phrase that's missing is "British Recieved Pronunciation"

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"British accent" Who uses this term? English, Welsh and Scottish accents sound nothing like each other!

There's plenty of difference within English accents as well. I'll generally classify any of them as English, I think.

That said, when I use the term British accent, I do usually mean English, I think. Sorry. Also sorry for all the times I used England when I meant UK, or UK when I meant Great Britain, or vice versa.

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"British accent" Who uses this term? English, Welsh and Scottish accents sound nothing like each other!

This is true, but you could also say the same about the phrases "English accent" and "Scottish accent" -- a Scouse accent sounds nothing like RP, and a Highland lilt is very different from the accent in the Gorbals.

And the Appalachian accents of Justified sound very different to the Mid-Atlantic accent of Frasier Crane -- yet to me, as an outsider, there is still an indefinable "Americanness" common to them all.

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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British accent review time! "Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly "Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday "Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts "Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American "Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent. Not to be all Henry Higgins, but…

Patient man, sounds a little Welsh, maybe some Indian twangs in there too?

I tried Irvine Welsh so perhaps the wrong kind of Welsh, but I got a generator error while trying to ask for Mark Hunt having a pint.
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