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Is Your English Accent British or American?

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Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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A 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.

Mine gets relatively consistently British. Wonder if it’s regional accents in any way?

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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I noticed the URL, and stayed away. They want my data for stats, profiling, or building an automated Henry Higgins, they can contact me and quote a price.

Not a native speaker (raised on Danish), but lived for a while in Australia, and also spent a lot of time in the UK. And it shows. The British invariably take me for an antipodean, the Aussies usually for a Pommie bastard, and then every once in a while for a Kiwi. Nobody ever thought me North American.

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