Is Your English Accent British or American?
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Is Your English Accent British or American?
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#2Saying nothing qualifies for British. Legit.
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#3This is really hit-or-miss. My initial test gave me a 93% British (rather accurate considering I'm from a former British colony), but subsequently the results varied a lot, including a few cases where it claimed my accent is 74% American.
The way I pronounce "ask", "plastic" and "Bob" should be dead giveaways that my accent is not American...
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#4This isn't very accurate. I'm Canadian (I sound American) but this thing is claiming my accent is 80% British.
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#5I'm from Britain and it rated my accent as 99-100% British the few times that I tried it. So not bad from my point of view.
Meanwhile, I wonder what Cambridge Consultants are going to do with a dataset of thousands of Hacker News users reading out the sentence "Please call Stella and ask her to meet Bob the frog at the store with three small red plastic bags".
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#6When I speak with my normal NY Northeastern accent it tells me British 80%.
When I speak with a poorly done, make-believe Southern accent it tells me American 90%.
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#7Things like this are fun as a New Englander who doesn't have the "pahk the cah" accent of Boston. Our vowels are flat, and mine get flatter when I'm drinking--when I visited Ireland with my family the landlady at a little bed-and-breakfast took me aside and inquired if I had been educated in England. Nope--I just don't say "baaaaaaaag".
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#8Lived in England and Scotland for 31 years, lived in Australia for 6 years.
67% American 33% British
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#9Even though I grew up in a Commonwealth country, it says I've got 85% British accent which is totally not correct
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