I was insulted that it rated my Aussie lingo as "British".
:-) I must say though, that for a non-native English speaker, Aussie sounds indeed much more British than American.
Is Your English Accent British or American?
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#32A Kiwi accent would almost certainly result in a server explosion.
No obvious explosions, but it doesn't know what to make of it. First submission: 18% American, 82% British, second submission: 68% American, 32% British.
I tried putting on American and British accents and could easily get it over 90% either direction, so at least it's working for those.
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#33Even though I grew up in a Commonwealth country, it says I've got 85% British accent which is totally not correct
Huh? Why would you expect your accent to be more American if you grew up in a Commonwealth county?
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#35Apparently my british accent is fail
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#36When 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.
Depending where in northeast New York one is, one can end up with something close to the Northwest New England accent (which shares a lot more with an English accent than most of America).
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#38I'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".
"My voice is my passport, verify me."
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#39I'm from St. Louis and it guessed 65% American. I then tried a fake British accent and it thought I was 63% British. I guess I need to work on my British accent.
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#40I was insulted that it rated my Aussie lingo as "British".
I was rated as 71% US ;) I wonder if the various accents of Australia rate differently or whether I'm influenced too much by foreign media.