Saying nothing qualifies for British. Legit.
English is British by default, that's just geography.
Is Your English Accent British or American?
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#22It's funny that my south indian accent was 90% match to American and my "normal" Indian accent was split 50-50.
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#23This is kind of fun for practicing accents. Even with my "best" attempt at a British accent I never got below 80% American.
Would be cool to see if it had any data for identifying some more specific American accents though.
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#24On iPhone this site requires iOS 11 and up. :(
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#25How are people saying "Plastic"?
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#26This is kind of fun for practicing accents. Even with my "best" attempt at a British accent I never got below 80% American. Would be cool to see if it had any data for identifying some more specific American accents though.
I'm American and it put me at 66% British...
Edit: and now 99% British every time. Methinks the site is broken.
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#27When 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.
Sound legit. Noisy: American. Subtle and understated: British
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#28I was insulted that it rated my Aussie lingo as "British".
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#29This is kind of fun for practicing accents. Even with my "best" attempt at a British accent I never got below 80% American. Would be cool to see if it had any data for identifying some more specific American accents though.
I was able to get 90% in either direction at will.
American: over-pronounce your Rs and try to get the æ sound wherever "ah" is called for. (I guess this is a great lakes accent)
British: imitate the intonation of BBC broadcasts I occasionally hear syndicated on npr stations.
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#30Born 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 bu…
> Born 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.
That's really interesting. I have a very similar background (and from Washington DC) and I got 84% British, too. It rated my pronunciation of the word "call" as ~100% British. That's pretty interesting if it can regionally categorize people.