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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 by IkmoIkmo »

Haha, that was fun. First time around I was 55% American. Then 49% American. Then I did my best British accent (49% American, guess I can't ever become a spy in Britain) and my best American accent (88%, hah!).

I'm English as a second language, continental western-europe.

edit: tried British accent one more time and thought about it for a sec before doing it, changed the call and ask to do a British 'a' and got 99% British. It seems I'm destined for a life of spying after all!

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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Post by tankenmate »

sndean wrote: post #30
asveikau wrote: post #13

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. 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.…

I suspect that is because a typical mid west or west coast accent has a moving pitch with the word "call", typically down then up within the one syllable. The usual British accent has a monotone or a slight drop in pitch for the word "call".

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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Post by anon23452358734 »

It'd be neat to see this sort of idea integrated into some of those automated phone menus with voice recognition at some point. Whenever I'm visiting the US and try to top up my data on my T-mobile account, it decides I want to do a plethora of things - from adding $100 to cancelling my account - never topping up my data. I always end up handing the phone to my American wife and making her do it...

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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Post by IshKebab »

hyper_reality wrote: post #5

I'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".

I am too and only got 65% British.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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Post by praulv »

burnte wrote: post #38
hyper_reality wrote: post #5

I'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."

*password I believe. Upvoted.

Re: Is Your English Accent British or American?

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Post by CalRobert »

s_dev wrote: post #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.

Californian who has lived in Dublin for 5 years. 82% American, though attempting a south Dublin accent gave me 52/48.
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