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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by interloxia »

belval wrote: post #2

It'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.

It would be nice if they were clear they wouldn't keep the sample on the page. They do have a privacy policy on their main site www.boldvoice.com/privacy

It didn't guess for me other than to say I was a native speaker.

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Post by madeofpalk »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #14
imalerba wrote: post #4

Fell for it. 90% czech, 10% polish. Nothing further from the reality. I guess it just geolocates by IP?

Don't think so, couldn't pick my Australian accent from here in Australia. I'll go back and lay it on real thick and see if it does better.

I think we both misunderstood.

> You sound like a native English speaker. I couldn’t identify any distinct non-native accent.

I am a native English speaker, with an Australian accent. I think it's supposed to identify your non-english-native accent, which you wouldn't have one being Australian.

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Post by M3L0NM4N »

evan_ wrote: post #5

Interesting, I was hoping it would be more specific than "English" (e.g. "Southern Illinois"), but I'm sure that's just around the corner. It looks like this is an advertisement for a product to "lose" your accent, so as long as you sound like a native English-speaker they're happy. I tried again using an outrageously bad (probably to the point of offense) Scottish brogue and it pegged it as German.

A part of my family is from rural southern Illinois. There is certainly an accent, and not a pretty one.

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Post by tartoran »

This tool works pretty well, it guessed me right as well as few of my coworkers who are from a different parts of the world and none of us have obvious accents. This is scary good but I'm afraid privacy will be impossible in the future, we'll be analyzed and categorized instantly. The only barrier to completely losing privacy is our own thoughts.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by markerz »

imalerba wrote: post #4

Fell for it. 90% czech, 10% polish. Nothing further from the reality. I guess it just geolocates by IP?

Doubt it. I'm traveling in Hawaii right now and am Chinese-American who can speak Spanish, but it labeled me as Hindi/Urdu.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by jampa »

I knew my accent was strong, but I didn't expect to get 100% Portuguese, which is strange since Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Maybe it considers both accents to be Portuguese?

A fun fact: When using Whisper by OpenAI, there seems to be a ~1% chance that all my text, which was spoken entirely in English, is automatically transcribed and translated into pt-BR without any prompting. It happens more often when I am not paying too much attention to pronunciation.

The weird thing is that all the words were transcribed correctly (beyond being entirely in a different language)

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