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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#81

Post by throw646577 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:17 PM UTC

Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam.

Don't do this.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#82

Post by anadalakra » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:18 PM UTC

binary132 wrote: post #75

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.

Nice suggestion! BoldVoice focuses on helping non-native English speakers to learn the American accent, so we tailored the accent oracle to non-native accents specifically.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#83

Post by EGreg » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:18 PM UTC

https://start.boldvoice.com/accent-guesser

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#84

Post by gobins » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:20 PM UTC

Interesting that it actually guessed as the neighbouring country. I live close to the border but have never interacted with the people across. Wonder if there might be similarities in tone and inflection.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#85

Post by sebzim4500 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:20 PM UTC

throw646577 wrote: post #81

Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.

I don't follow. Why is the data they are getting from this better than the billions of hours of captioned voice data available from youtube/tiktok/instagram/whatever?

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#86

Post by muhammadusman » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:21 PM UTC

I'm happy with my mix of Urdu + English accent, I got an 80% on Urdu which seems about right. I am impressed by this and now I'd like to hear others and how well it matches their voice. Although, I don't need coaching or anything to remove my accent, it makes me me.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#87

Post by adverbly » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:25 PM UTC

I tried my best Arnold Schwarzenegger accent.

It had me as English, French and Spanish. I'm not very good at accents to be fair.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#88

Post by wigster » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:25 PM UTC

i'm english - it gave me 99% danish, 1% swedish. hmmm

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#89

Post by glandium » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:25 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

Works fine in Firefox 133 here.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

#90

Post by amelius » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:25 PM UTC

gobins wrote: post #84

Interesting that it actually guessed as the neighbouring country. I live close to the border but have never interacted with the people across. Wonder if there might be similarities in tone and inflection.

Maybe the GPS signal was slightly off ;)