AI Guesses Your Accent

Whenever time permits, I have a (bad) habit of viewing source code of new website. In this case, I found this on this website: (haven't read the js yet to see what's the true intent but surely a sign of horrible engineering)

edit- seems like remix customizations.

              "remove-watch-video-requirement": {
                            "defaultValue": false,
                            "rules": [{
                                "condition": {
                                    "env": "prod",
                                    "email": {
                                        "$in": ["@gmail.com", "redacted"]
                                    }
                                },
                                "force": true
                            }]
                        },
                        "score-only-lesson-phoneme": {
                            "defaultValue": true
                        },
                        "auto-stop-recording-for-all-practice": {
                            "defaultValue": true,
                            "rules": [{
                                "condition": {
                                    "env": "prod",
                                    "email": {
                                        "$in": ["redacted", "redacted", "redacted@live.com"]
                                    }
                                },
                                "force": false
                            }]
                        },
                        "use-speechace-v9": {
                            "defaultValue": true
                        },
                        "april-2022-price-increase-experiment": {
                            "defaultValue": false,
                            "rules": [{
                                "condition": {
                                    "env": "prod",
                                    "email": {
                                        "$in": ["redacted@usorov.com", "redacted@gmail.com", "redacted@gmail.com", "redacted@boldvoice.com", "redacted@gmail.com"]
                                    }
                                },
                                "force": false

…or so you think. ;)

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Well, I am not a native English speaker and it says 77% English (and 6% Chinese, 5% Spanish). I guess I should take that to mean that my English is pretty good.

My ex-wife whose native language is Spanish worked hard to eliminate her accent because she got tired of people calling her accent “cute.” Her shibboleths were anything with a schwa. The whole concept of schwas offends her sense of vocalic purity.