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Apparently Persian and Russian are close. Which is surprising to say the least. I know people keep getting confused about how Portuguese from Portugal and Russian sound close yet the Persian is new to me.
I thought I was the only one who perceived an audible similarity between Portuguese and Russian.
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 agree there is no such thing as a "British accent", though I'm lucky that my mockney lilt is considered to be one, but Dutch, Danish and Yorkshire are very similar for historical reasons so it's somewhat understandable for you to be detected as Dutch in this app. I find Danes speaking Danish to sound like a soft Yorkshire accent, and the vowels that Yorkies use are better written in Danish, like phøne.
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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.
Going mono-tonal to that of an expressive ebook increased my "American English" score from a 52% to 92%. I'd suggest training a little less on audio books.
What does it mean mono-tonal and what is an expressive ebook? I assume you are not American born? I had been of the understanding that rythm was more important than the exact sounds in comprehension.
The fact that they believe there to be a single 'British' accent means this can be quickly discounted as nonsense.
At any rate, I was looking forward to finding out what the accent oracle thought of my native US English accent, which sounds northern to southerners and southern to northerners, but I guess it'd probably just flag it as "American".
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…
Wow, I'm not deaf, but almost everything you mentioned applies to me too. I've never met anyone else who has experienced this before, yet all of your following points apply exactly to me: > standard Canadian English is my native language > Most native English speakers claim my speech is unmarked > Non-native speakers of English often think I have a foreign accent, too. Often they guess at English or Australian. Like…
More bizarrely? Locals often assume I'm not from around here as well. I actually don't understand it.
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I thought I was the only one who perceived an audible similarity between Portuguese and Russian.
I had that too but it was Brazillian Portuguese where I noticed it.
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…
The Australian-Vietnamese continuum is well-explained by Australia being the geographically nearest region which can supply native English language teachers to English language learners in Vietnam, rather than by any intrinsic phonetic resemblance between Vietnamese and Australian English.
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We are working on this - we don't have quite enough Irish speech data.
How do you know? Your “UK” set is liable to have some Irish accents in it. You need to break down regions more
>>You need to break down regions more Yes we do; shipping this soon