I'm American. I read it in what I think is my normal voice, and it came out 93% British.
Ok, maybe I enunciated and pronounced my 't' sounds out of self-consciousness. Still.
I retried and got 90% American.
Is Your English Accent British or American?
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#102Thought I sounded 65% American, told it I was British and not to use me for retraining, then tried again and was 90% British...
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#103It's hard to tell if the speech recognition is working, or even if the microphone is on. If I hum the star spangled banner, it rates me as 79% British.
I said the sentence in Spanish and it gave me 62% British. I tried Portuguese, and it gave me 55% British.
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#104My New England accent got me 50/50. I guess that makes sense?
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#105I have two accents: the "Finnish Rally Driver" (55-45) and "Monty Python" (7-93). I was ashamed of my regular Rally-Driver until Dame July Dench said "What a delightful accent, are you from Hungary?".
I have so many questions for you right now.
- what does Finnish rally driver sound like - how did you meet Dame Judy Dench - where are you actually from?
It's pretty funny how language roots show. Finnish and Hungarian are the same family of languages and apparently Dame Judy picked up on it!
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#106I have two accents: the "Finnish Rally Driver" (55-45) and "Monty Python" (7-93). I was ashamed of my regular Rally-Driver until Dame July Dench said "What a delightful accent, are you from Hungary?".
I have so many questions for you right now. - what does Finnish rally driver sound like - how did you meet Dame Judy Dench - where are you actually from? It's pretty funny how language roots show. Finnish and Hungarian are the same family of languages and apparently Dame Judy picked up on it!
- what does Finnish rally driver sound like: https://youtu.be/fZfxJ7BST8E
- how did you meet Dame Judy Dench: At Heathrow Tesco. All Britons look the same, but she was quite "posh". Dame of that age and looks, but did not confirm the exact identity.
- where are you actually from? Finland, github.com/timonoko
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#107I have two accents: the "Finnish Rally Driver" (55-45) and "Monty Python" (7-93). I was ashamed of my regular Rally-Driver until Dame July Dench said "What a delightful accent, are you from Hungary?".
Like Ari Vatanen?
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#109It's hard to tell if the speech recognition is working, or even if the microphone is on. If I hum the star spangled banner, it rates me as 79% British.
If it's machine learning-based it probably just doesn't know how to handle weird invalid input like that.`
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#110I'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".
It's actually a famous sample; I remember seeing it in linguistics classes. It just happens to contain a lot of words that reveal differences between English dialects.