Apparently my "accent" is 36% Russian, 16% Korean, and 13% Albanian, none of which are remotely correct.
AI Guesses Your Accent
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mean to suggest that this particular toy is much use. I just mean you should not give random internet games standardised samples of your voice, for this reason. It's a standardised sample, already correlated to text, close to the microphone, for one thing. You're just making it easier for them. I mean I suppose you can use "like and subscribe", "without further ado", and "let's get started" as standardised sa…
Or teach people not to trust that you said something just because something sounds like you. Use actual authentication instead of implied. Same for photos, videos
This is perfect for CEO scams in most American companies.
Many (large and small) American companies (and other nationalities as well, sure) a top down management approach is the norm. I.e. "CEO" (or "your manager" / "person in power") says something and you jump and do it without asking any questions because you fear you'll be fired otherwise (or have other repercussions).
In such an environment, imagine the CEO / person in power giving the best sample ever to the crooks, such that they can clone your voice almost perfectly. Now, of course, CEOs are likely to be recorded in various events anyway but some others are less likely, say the CFO.
Then order some lowly finance drone to wire a billion bucks to your account (well, maybe a bit less, and make sure to use someone else's account, seven levels of money mules and 17 different crypto currencies with mixers etc. before cashing out) with your faked voice.
We caught a CEO scam that was pretty good but noticeable recently. They had cloned his voice.
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#153My mind is blown right now. My whole life I've been told that my speech is so American and that I don't have a Russian accent (left Russia when I was 4). Lo and behold, this app tells me that my accent is Russian (61%) with English being a distant second (13%).
I left Russia around the same age and got 100% English. I can easily do a fake accent and get Russian though. Also some other accents like German, French and so on are pretty easy to get too.
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#154I was able to get it to classify me as spanish, hungarian, albanian and romanian. I think it mostly latches to intonations, not sounds as such.
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#155I’m British. It guessed I was Turkish.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
French Canadian and France French accents are very different, so if the AI couldn't tell the difference, that doesn't speak well for it
Does it regionalize at all? There are a few comments about Portugal Portuguese vs Brazil Portuguese so I think it only tries to find your first language, not actually pinpoint the underlying accent.
Ya it doesn't seem to go down into dialect, its the broad scope, it nailed my wifes spanish accent even though i really can't hear it at all and she talks very american
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#157Kind of hit-or-miss, apparently. It was extremely off with mine, and with my friends it was a 50/50 split.
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#158The homepage sort of implies that "having an accent" is something only non native speakers do? Like an accent only comes from your exotic mother tongue. Kinda weird. It told me I'm a native speaker, and I am a non American native speaker so... good I guess?
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#159It's fun but as I tested it I realized how this is pretty much the modern equivalent of a Facebook quiz that asks you the name of your first pet, first car and mother's maiden name. If they recorded any of that they likely have enough to clone my voice somewhat faithfully. Congratulations on labelling my French Canadian accent as French though, I'll have to work on my pronounciation more to fool the AI.
Just want to say "Thank you!" for sharing your instinct for privacy concerns. That also made me pause to click on Try Me on the site. Hard pass.
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#160Really fun is trying to do various accents and seeing what it thinks you sound like, I tried my best South African and it thought Japanese. Guess I need to work on my mimicry