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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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

I have a particularly flat affect, apparently due to my autism, this thing could only tell I'm a native english speaker.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#72

Post by hyperbovine » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:06 PM UTC

It gave this native English speaker "Swedish" with p > 90%. Just confirms the feeling I get every time I go to Sweden that they really do speak better English than me.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by psb » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:08 PM UTC

itsadok wrote: post #38

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 pa…

I would pay for an equivalent app that helped my German pronunciation

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#74

Post by ks2048 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:09 PM UTC

anadalakra wrote: post #70

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.

Doesn't work in Firefox.

Edit: Firefox 133.0. Console shows error giving url: https://react.dev/errors/418?invariant=418

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by binary132 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:10 PM UTC

I’d be interested in a version of this that guesses regional American accent backgrounds. I’d like to think it would have a hard time with me.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by ks2048 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:12 PM UTC

rougka wrote: post #12

AI fingerprints your voice and sells it to ad companies

I'm not sure about that, but it is a good way to collect data on different accents.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by thr3000 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:13 PM UTC

hyperbovine wrote: post #72

It gave this native English speaker "Swedish" with p > 90%. Just confirms the feeling I get every time I go to Sweden that they really do speak better English than me.

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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by 3836293648 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:15 PM UTC

Speaking normally it identified me as English (seems it just means native and not actually specifically English?). Putting on a Swedish accent it got that too, but if it really picked up subtle details as claimed it should've identified that as English too as I break waaay too often with certain vowels.

I'm surprised it considered my truly awful American native, but it needed two clips to decide that time. And 30% Hindi/Urdu? What?

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by yorwba » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:15 PM UTC

ks2048 wrote: post #74

anadalakra wrote: post #70

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.

Doesn't work in Firefox. Edit: Firefox 133.0. Console shows error giving url: https://react.dev/errors/418?invariant=418

It works in Firefox Nightly (135.0a1) for Android for me, although I have to accept the microphone prompt twice for some reason.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by oytis » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:16 PM UTC

Not quite, but pretty close, I am impressed. I'd say it's doing better than most people at least for me