Lived in England and Scotland for 31 years, lived in Australia for 6 years. 67% American 33% British
Have you seen the voice controlled elevator sketch on Burnistoun? Give the poor algorithm a break! ;)
Is Your English Accent British or American?
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Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?
#12I’m 100% American from the mid-Atlantic region. Rated my accent 53% American and 47% UK. I tried on my best south London accent, which is fairly cartoony, and got a 60% UK.
Edit: just tried my best Southern accent (kinda Georgia) and rated 72% American.
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#13Born in Washington DC and that is the southernmost point of my childhood. Father born in England to Eastern European immigrants. Mother is Italian American from Pennsylvania. West coasters semi-frequently think my accent is European, but nobody from back east or from Europe says that.
I got 84% British.
My wife was born in Russia and spent most of her life on the US west coast. She got 91% American.
Fun little app but given my results and some comments here I see it as a west coast accent detector.
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#14This seems like it'd be hard to do reliably - if I recall, there were significant variations in the regional makeup of the various thirteen colonies to start with, and some of those linguistic peculiarities have outlived their originators, besides England having it's own subdialects and variations over time too.
Get a Mainer, a New Yorker, a Virginian, and a Georgian together, and they're hardly mutually intelligble, and that's just on the east coast.
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#15I'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".
Probably just make refinements to the model they're using to classify samples.
The sentence is obviously taken (with some modifications) from the sample used by the speech accent archive ( http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php ), which was constructed specifically to include every relevant phonological context in American English. (Not that this was necessarily achieved, but it was the goal.)
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#16When I said, "bleep da doop de blah bleep nah," this classified me as 80% American.
Then, I clapped my hands twice (and didn't speak), which classified me as 72% British.
As a final test, I did both at the same time: 90% American.
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#17I'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".
Leave them on random people's voicemail, probably.
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#18When 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%.
How? I tried it in my best city accent, my native suburban accent, and my best Rochester accent, and got >95% American each time.
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#19A Kiwi accent would almost certainly result in a server explosion.
Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?
#20This seems like it'd be hard to do reliably - if I recall, there were significant variations in the regional makeup of the various thirteen colonies to start with, and some of those linguistic peculiarities have outlived their originators, besides England having it's own subdialects and variations over time too. Get a Mainer, a New Yorker, a Virginian, and a Georgian together, and they're hardly mutually intelligble,…
Other than some slang, I wouldn't call any of these accents mutually unintelligible.