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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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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To this Canadian as well!

I'm American and to me, Aussie sounds Aussie, not at all British. I reckon I'd be insulted too.

Nonsense. Aussie sounds a lot like a lot of estuary accents, especially if they try to "posh" it up.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

#64

This 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.

Here's the trick - the "r" is not as important as that ghastly "o" sound that becomes like an "aaaaaaaa" in General 'Murrican.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To this Canadian as well!

I'm American and to me, Aussie sounds Aussie, not at all British. I reckon I'd be insulted too.

But I bet Aussie doesn't sound American either. It's a binary classification, it will give spurios results if you feed it with input outside its domain.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

#68

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.…

Cambridge Consultants is a /very/ different firm to Cambridge Analytica, if that's what you were thinking? It's a well regarded contract engineering consultancy rather than a data analysis company.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

#69
I'm Irish. Was curious to see how it would interpret my accent.

41% US, 59% British -- did a few times an the ratios reversed.

Doing impressions of British or American people got me close to 100% of their respective values. I'd say there is some merit there alright.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

#70

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.…

Cambridge Consultants is a /very/ different firm to Cambridge Analytica, if that's what you were thinking? It's a well regarded contract engineering consultancy rather than a data analysis company.

Letting my general paranoia overrule my inclination, I assumed some sort of connection. A [very] quick looup didn't disabuse me of that assumption. I probably stand corrected.

Mind you, I am always sceptical of these 'tests' all over the web. Somebody clearly is after my info for free.

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