Apparently my "accent" is 36% Russian, 16% Korean, and 13% Albanian, none of which are remotely correct.
What is your mother language then?
AI Guesses Your Accent
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#252Deaf, me, here.
They couldn't guess my accent (they were all over the world, each time I tried it).
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#253This was less interesting than I was hoping for, because it wasn't specific. It said I don't have a non-native English accent. Great, I already knew that. But I'm curious if it could place my regional accent in the United States. I'm originally from the Southern Midwest which has a distinct accent, but have made a great effort to neutralize my accent and believe I now sound neutrally American (what used to be called…
Yep, as a New Zealander/Australian (spent half my life in both) I was curious what it would give me. Turns out "native english speaker" is all you get. Even if I really put it on thick
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are already voice cloning tools that work without needing a standardised sample like this
There are, and they still need people to provide voice samples. So don't play games like this.
What do you mean? They can work on any voice recording without needing to get someone to say a specific thing
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#255This was a big confidence booster for me as when I first started learning English, people would complement me on how well I spoke English, but I took that as my accent was still detectable. It's only been in the past 5 years that people assumed I was American and made no comment on my English at all, until I disclosed that English was my second language. It's usually certain words that give me trouble, like "cupboard…
Don't worry, even sneaky Canadians give it away, with words like PRO-cess vs PRAH-cess.
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#256Nae Scottish.
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#257This was a big confidence booster for me as when I first started learning English, people would complement me on how well I spoke English, but I took that as my accent was still detectable. It's only been in the past 5 years that people assumed I was American and made no comment on my English at all, until I disclosed that English was my second language. It's usually certain words that give me trouble, like "cupboard…
Don't worry, even sneaky Canadians give it away, with words like PRO-cess vs PRAH-cess.
Perhaps the most famous...ABOOT.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not me, I came out as 98% German. Oh well, I just need to own it!
95% german, 5% dutch. Guess I can't stop schnacking on platt to some degree. Though this is raising the fun question: What makes a german accent in english? Harsh consonants? Is there some wiki or some articles to read up on that?
I don't know any articles about it, but as a native English speaker that learned German and participated in a German exchange student program...
The ones that first come to mind for me are:
- The "th" sound. It's often pronounced like "z" (like the s in German's "sein"). So "that" becomes "zat".
- W becomes V, ie, "When" becomes "ven".
- The short "a" as in "cat" turns into "eh". "Laptop" becomes "Leptop".
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#259It doesn't work - it seemed to catch my accent once I ran it a couple of times on the same browser, but... in the incognito mode, it fails every single time, ranging from French and Swedish to Swahili. :D When I mumbled a bit and lowered my voice, it said 97% English, lol. Maybe its model treats mumbling as the UK, hard to say. When I added a bit of "R," it immediately recognized me as Russian, ignoring everything else. And when I increased my pitch without changing anything else, it started detecting Persian and Spanish. When I used a proxy server pointing to Scandinavia, it started detecting Swedish, lol. Fake as hell. I'm Polish, btw.
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are, and they still need people to provide voice samples. So don't play games like this.
What do you mean? They can work on any voice recording without needing to get someone to say a specific thing
What I mean is that there are still billions of people whose voices are not on the internet.
I'm more than half a century old, an internet geek since a few years before the conventional "dawn of the web" and AFAIK there is no recording of my voice on the internet.
Added to which, controlled samples like this with a good range of syllables will always be more helpful, won't they?