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Since our own accents generally sound neutral to ourselves, I would love someone to make an accent-doubler - take the differences between two accents and expand them, so an Australian can hear what they sound like to an American, or vice-versa
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I'm also deaf, and I took 14 years of speech therapy. I grew up in Alabama. The only way you would know I'm from the South is because of the pin-pen merger[1]. Otherwise, you'd think I grew up in the American Midwest, due to how my speech therapy went. Almost nobody picks up on it, unless they are linguists that already knew about the pin-pen merger. [1] https://www.acelinguist.com/2020/01/the-pin-pen-merger.html
I’m aware of the merger, but I literally can’t hear a difference between the words. I certainly pronounce them the same way. I also think merry-marry-Mary are all pronounced identically. The only way I can conceive of a difference between them is to think of an exaggerated Long Island accent, which, yeah, I guess is what makes it an accent.
I tried the oracle and got this: > Your accent is Dutch, my friend. I identified your accent based on subtle details in your pronunciation. Want to sound like a native English speaker? I'm British; from Yorkshire. When letting it know how it got it wrong there's no option more specific than "English - United Kingdom". That's kind of funny, if not absurd, to anyone who knows anything of the incredible range of accents…
I've tried to do the accent oracle test few times and it catches me being Italian with a 90%+ confidence.
The interesting thing is that if I try to fake a more english accent like American...it tells me I'm polish.
Which is odd because I don't really have a polish accent and don't speak it that well. I sound Italian even in Polish.
I'm deaf. Something close to standard Canadian English is my native language. Most native English speakers claim my speech is unmarked but I think they're being polite; it's slightly marked as unusual and some with a good ear can easily tell it's because of hearing loss. Using the accent guesser, I have a Swedish accent. Danish and Australian English follow as a close tie. It's not just the AI. Non-native speakers of…
> AI also really has trouble with transcribing my speech. I noticed that as early as the '90s with early speech recognition software. It was completely unusable. I don't know what your transcription use cases are, but you may be able to get an improvement by fine-tuning Whisper. This would require about $4 in training costs[1], and a dataset with 5-10 hours of your labeled (transcribed) speech, which may be the bigge…
It's an interesting self-contained example
I tried the oracle and got this: > Your accent is Dutch, my friend. I identified your accent based on subtle details in your pronunciation. Want to sound like a native English speaker? I'm British; from Yorkshire. When letting it know how it got it wrong there's no option more specific than "English - United Kingdom". That's kind of funny, if not absurd, to anyone who knows anything of the incredible range of accents…
I'm also British, from Devon.
Since our own accents generally sound neutral to ourselves, I would love someone to make an accent-doubler - take the differences between two accents and expand them, so an Australian can hear what they sound like to an American, or vice-versa
My own accent doesn't sound neutral to myself at all. It sounds incredibly Dutch (which makes sense, since I'm Dutch).