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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by specproc » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:21 PM UTC

Didn't get my farm-Brummie.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by dboreham » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:21 PM UTC

Hmm. I was expecting something that can differentiate between Stirling and Dunblane. Based on the comments it seems no.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by nu11ptr » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:22 PM UTC

Not very good guesses. It had me read twice and I used a high quality mic. It guessed Spanish as my native language, but picked up a bit of Chinese and a bit of English. I am a native born American whose only language is English and a life long Midwesterner. I have a midwestern accent and occasionally some Canadian influences sneaks in (or so people have told me), but Spanish/Chinese? Completely wrong.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by leo3567 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:23 PM UTC

goshx wrote: post #8

I guess I don't have my native language's accent (which I tend to hear from native English speakers). It guessed Hebrew. My native language is Portuguese.

I think it's trained on Brazilian Portuguese. Although I have lived in the UK for the last 10 years, it got it right every single time.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by loevborg » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:24 PM UTC

satoqz wrote: post #9

Well, as a German native speaker I’m quite satisfied that I can trick it into thinking I’m English :)

Not me, I came out as 98% German. Oh well, I just need to own it!

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by bkovacev » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:24 PM UTC

I'm genuinely surprised it got my accent right. Coming from Serbia, I'd never expect to get it right. My first guess was that it's geo-ip based, but I could be wrong.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by DAGdug » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

rougka wrote: post #12

AI fingerprints your voice and sells it to ad companies

What does this mean - could you elaborate on what you mean by ad companies and how they would use voice data?

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by itsadok » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

The app this is advertising helps non-native speakers with their accent, I assume to sound more American. This is a great goal, and I'm sure there are a lot of people who would be willing to pay the $200-$300 yearly subscription cost. Apparently the AI part is not even the main function of the app, that's what the extra $100 are paying for[1].

I would be interested in an AI-only product that would help me learn to passably immitate various English accents, like Australian, Irish and so forth, for fun. I know that ChatGPT Voice can do accents pretty well, I've been wondering if it would also be able to help me with mine, but I haven't tried it seriously.

[1] https://www.boldvoice.com/frequently-asked-questions

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by imalerba » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

markerz wrote: post #29

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.

So I picked up the Czech accent but not the language, dang.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by kyleblarson » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

Would be cool if it could detect area specific accents. I grew up in Kentucky and tried it in a very thick Eastern KY accent and it just said native english speaker. (technically true) Here's what it sounds like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8vHRH9A6M