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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by guytv » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 9:55 PM UTC

imalerba wrote: post #4

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

worked 100% identifying my accent

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by insane_dreamer » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 9:56 PM UTC

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.

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

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by rahimnathwani » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 9:58 PM UTC

For me:

English: 91%

Nigerian: 4%

Spanish: 3%

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by DAGdug » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 9:59 PM UTC

jl6 wrote: post #60

DAGdug wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Probably should be read as "bad actors", who, with enough samples of your voice, could theoretically do shady things like robo-call your mom, pretending to be you.

Okay, that’s pretty different from ad companies. I’ve worked in the ads space and what the poster mentioned doesn’t apply in any manner, AFAIK.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by davidw » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:00 PM UTC

My wife is Italian. It guessed Greek.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by chamanbuga » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:02 PM UTC

The first guess was shockingly spot on. Tried it again and it thought I was English. Tried it again and it thought I was Dutch. First guess was right though.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by 1317 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:02 PM UTC

quite disappointing, it just said English and nothing else

well yes, but tell me what region!

or something other than just stating the obvious

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by anadalakra » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:04 PM UTC

rougka wrote: post #12

AI fingerprints your voice and sells it to ad companies

Not true - from the makers :)

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by RajT88 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:04 PM UTC

nu11ptr wrote: post #33

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.

I had the same thing happen! 83% English, 3% Spanish, 2% Chinese.

I am super midwestern, lived here all my life. I didn't realize I was saying "ope" until I saw a meme about it.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by anadalakra » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:05 PM UTC

Fun to see this in the wild! I'm one of the co-founders of BoldVoice, AMA :) p.s. I'm Albanian and it guesses either Albanian or English for me, sometimes randomly Spanish.