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This is kind of fun for practicing accents. Even with my "best" attempt at a British accent I never got below 80% American. Would be cool to see if it had any

This is kind of fun for practicing accents. Even with my "best" attempt at a British accent I never got below 80% American. Would be cool to see if it had any data for identifying some more specific American accents though.

corndoge 9y ago
I'm American and it put me at 66% British... Edit: and now 99% British every time. Methinks the site is broken.
- _delirium 9y ago
  I'm also an American and get consistently 80-90% British. It seems to think I pronounce "Bob" in an especially British way. I pronounce it in a way that sounds like "Bahb" to me, same sound as in not and cot (I don't have the cot-caught merger). I believe it's the vowel <ä> in IPA that I use. To my ears that's not the way most UK speakers would pronounce it, which I think is more <ɔ> or <ɒ> for all of Bob/not/cot.
asveikau 9y ago
I was able to get 90% in either direction at will. American: over-pronounce your Rs and try to get the æ sound wherever "ah" is called for. (I guess this is a great lakes accent) British: imitate the intonation of BBC broadcasts I occasionally hear syndicated on npr stations.
barsonme 9y ago
Heh. In my regular accent (American) I got 90% American (although, I got 99% American when I spoke normally and didn't purposefully enunciate). But my God-awful British accent got 98% British. It picked up on the parts of the generic British accent (London accent?) that us Americans think about and exaggerate when mimicking a British accent—tall vowels, especially the "O"s and "A"s.
laurieg 9y ago
My normal accent is British but I affected a crappy American accent and got 98% first try. I think this will classify you as American if you just put in rhotic Rs and ham up the vowel sounds.
z0ltan 9y ago
Here's the trick - the "r" is not as important as that ghastly "o" sound that becomes like an "aaaaaaaa" in General 'Murrican.

corndoge 9y ago

I'm American and it put me at 66% British... Edit: and now 99% British every time. Methinks the site is broken.

_delirium 9y ago
I'm also an American and get consistently 80-90% British. It seems to think I pronounce "Bob" in an especially British way. I pronounce it in a way that sounds like "Bahb" to me, same sound as in not and cot (I don't have the cot-caught merger). I believe it's the vowel <ä> in IPA that I use. To my ears that's not the way most UK speakers would pronounce it, which I think is more <ɔ> or <ɒ> for all of Bob/not/cot.

asveikau 9y ago

I was able to get 90% in either direction at will. American: over-pronounce your Rs and try to get the æ sound wherever "ah" is called for. (I guess this is a great lakes accent) British: imitate the intonation of BBC broadcasts I occasionally hear syndicated on npr stations.

barsonme 9y ago

Heh. In my regular accent (American) I got 90% American (although, I got 99% American when I spoke normally and didn't purposefully enunciate). But my God-awful British accent got 98% British. It picked up on the parts of the generic British accent (London accent?) that us Americans think about and exaggerate when mimicking a British accent—tall vowels, especially the "O"s and "A"s.

laurieg 9y ago

My normal accent is British but I affected a crappy American accent and got 98% first try. I think this will classify you as American if you just put in rhotic Rs and ham up the vowel sounds.

z0ltan 9y ago

Here's the trick - the "r" is not as important as that ghastly "o" sound that becomes like an "aaaaaaaa" in General 'Murrican.