AI Guesses Your Accent

Holy shit. I grew up in Armenia when I was 8 and been in the US for 22 years, and by all accounts English is my primary language, and this got it spot on, with 84% confidence. Was not expecting that for such a unknown accent.

I am guessing this was not trained on a dataset of people speaking English in various accents, but rather is directly detecting your native language.

It guesses Swedish for me. I'm Norwegian. While they have some similar quirks, like sounding "sing-song-y" to a lot of native English speakers, Swedish and Norwegian English accents are usually quite distinguishable from each other.

Given our (good-natured) neighbor-rivalry I'm of course horribly offended.

I've a very mixed accent and it just pretty much throw a random country in SE Asia (correct region) with different tries.

Not even close, top 3 are geographically all on the other side of Europe. Nice try.

When I intentionally spoke in my native accent (which is not something I normally do), it guessed it with 100% confidence, even though it's not very common. Impressive.

When I spoke like I normally do, it wasn't able to get anything on the first try, and on the second attempt it guessed 3 very different accents (e.g. Danish, Persian, ...) with more or less equal confidence. But it didn't guess my native accent at all.

Huh, I always thought I sound almost American. Looks like my accent is untraceable at best.