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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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This could be very useful for English language learners if it told you the pronunciation mistakes that you make. As it is now, it's a little disappointing. I got 98% British but I have no idea why it came to this conclusion. It could be that my British accent is good, or that my accent is rubbish but doesn't sound American, or anything else really.

It tells you which words you said it considers british and which it considered american by their red / blue colour.

It is also a binary choice. Like the hotdog/not hotdog app, you can't expect an AI to tell you much if it only has two options to chose from.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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I got 97% British, which is reasonable as I am British. However, I then tried a couple of time putting on an atrociously bad faux Australian nasal twang, and it still rated me 97% and 84% British - so I'm not so sure on it's accuracy... or maybe it can tell a British person putting on a rubbish foreign accent :-)

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

#85

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.

I'm American and it put me at 66% British... Edit: and now 99% British every time. Methinks the site is broken.

I'm also an American and get consistently 80-90% British. It seems to think I pronounce "Bob" in an especially British way. I pronounce it in a way that sounds like "Bahb" to me, same sound as in not and cot (I don't have the cot-caught merger). I believe it's the vowel in IPA that I use. To my ears that's not the way most UK speakers would pronounce it, which I think is more or for all of Bob/not/cot.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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Wanted to try it but got an error: ------------------- Sorry, your browser doesn't support audio recording, which is required by our site. Why not try again using Chrome, Firefox, or Edge? Note that iOS only supports in-browser audio from iOS 11 onwards. ------------------- This is in Chrome on iOS 11.2.2 with microphone access enabled.

Use Safari.
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