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I'm from Britain and it rated my accent as 99-100% British the few times that I tried it. So not bad from my point of view. Meanwhile, I wonder what Cambridge

I'm from Britain and it rated my accent as 99-100% British the few times that I tried it. So not bad from my point of view. Meanwhile, I wonder what Cambridge Consultants are going to do with a dataset of thousands of Hacker News users reading out the sentence "Please call Stella and ask her to meet Bob the frog at the store with three small red plastic bags".

thaumasiotes 9y ago
Probably just make refinements to the model they're using to classify samples. The sentence is obviously taken (with some modifications) from the sample used by the speech accent archive ( http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php ), which was constructed specifically to include every relevant phonological context in American English. (Not that this was necessarily achieved, but it was the goal.)
cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Leave them on random people's voicemail, probably.
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burnte 9y ago
"My voice is my passport, verify me."
- praulv 9y ago
  *password I believe. Upvoted.
  - jsnell 9y ago
    No, "passport". It was clearly a reference to the voice authentication hack in _Sneakers_.
    - praulv 9y ago
      We have something very similar in the UK tax service (HMRC) which is "password".
    - burnte 9y ago
      Indeed. They took a bunch of smaller words and spliced them together to fake his voice print. Cambridge Consultants are clearly harvesting our voice prints for the CIA. ;)
IshKebab 9y ago
I am too and only got 65% British.
emodendroket 9y ago
It's actually a famous sample; I remember seeing it in linguistics classes. It just happens to contain a lot of words that reveal differences between English dialects.
IIAOPSW 9y ago
I'm American and I get mixed results between 89% American and 53% British on my normal accent. My pronunciation of "call" and "to" seems to tip the scales towards British and most of my other words are not strongly highlighted. I can reliably fake a British accent although I seem to get stuck on frog and store still sounding American. When I do the stereotypical Texas style "yee haw" accent I get 99% American.

thaumasiotes 9y ago

Probably just make refinements to the model they're using to classify samples. The sentence is obviously taken (with some modifications) from the sample used by the speech accent archive ( http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php ), which was constructed specifically to include every relevant phonological context in American English. (Not that this was necessarily achieved, but it was the goal.)

cornyNetHandle 9y ago

Leave them on random people's voicemail, probably.

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burnte 9y ago

"My voice is my passport, verify me."

praulv 9y ago
*password I believe. Upvoted.
- jsnell 9y ago
  No, "passport". It was clearly a reference to the voice authentication hack in _Sneakers_.
  - praulv 9y ago
    We have something very similar in the UK tax service (HMRC) which is "password".
  - burnte 9y ago
    Indeed. They took a bunch of smaller words and spliced them together to fake his voice print. Cambridge Consultants are clearly harvesting our voice prints for the CIA. ;)

IshKebab 9y ago

I am too and only got 65% British.

emodendroket 9y ago

It's actually a famous sample; I remember seeing it in linguistics classes. It just happens to contain a lot of words that reveal differences between English dialects.

IIAOPSW 9y ago

I'm American and I get mixed results between 89% American and 53% British on my normal accent. My pronunciation of "call" and "to" seems to tip the scales towards British and most of my other words are not strongly highlighted. I can reliably fake a British accent although I seem to get stuck on frog and store still sounding American. When I do the stereotypical Texas style "yee haw" accent I get 99% American.