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AI Guesses Your Accent
- indianmouse 2y agoIt doesn't work. I tried atleast 15 times and it says it has trouble identifying and something not right! Well, There you go! for wasting my time....
- _k5mx 2y agoWas rather surprised to see the language preferences. I wonder if availability of the training data has to do with the language bias.
- oldcai 2y agoTry this one as well. It can distinguish between British and American accents. https://accentguesser.ai/ https://accentguesser.ai/
- douae013_hii 2y agoHello, i like football and my team is so talented.
- douae_puchaina 2y agoHello, i like football and my team is so talented.
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- belval 2y agoIt'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.
- interloxia 2y agoIt would be nice if they were clear they wouldn't keep the sample on the page. They do have a privacy policy on their main site www.boldvoice.com/privacy It didn't guess for me other than to say I was a native speaker.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoFrench Canadian and France French accents are very different, so if the AI couldn't tell the difference, that doesn't speak well for it
- belval 2y agoDoes it regionalize at all? There are a few comments about Portugal Portuguese vs Brazil Portuguese so I think it only tries to find your first language, not actually pinpoint the underlying accent.
- cchance 2y agoYa it doesn't seem to go down into dialect, its the broad scope, it nailed my wifes spanish accent even though i really can't hear it at all and she talks very american
- cperciva 2y agoIndeed. I learned Quebecois in school and when I started speaking it in Paris I got confused looks and "... do you speak English?"
- jszymborski 2y agoI have a similar experience, but my impression is that Parisians have little patience for accents in general. People elsewhere in France where I've visited (Aix-en-provence, Lyon, Toulouse) had no trouble chatting with me. Also want to note that I am not passing judgement, I am sure I might become a bit brusque with tourists if Montreal had the same volume.
- imalerba 2y agoFell for it. 90% czech, 10% polish. Nothing further from the reality. I guess it just geolocates by IP?
- jay_kyburz 2y agoDon't think so, couldn't pick my Australian accent from here in Australia. I'll go back and lay it on real thick and see if it does better.
- madeofpalk 2y agoI think we both misunderstood. > You sound like a native English speaker. I couldn’t identify any distinct non-native accent. I am a native English speaker, with an Australian accent. I think it's supposed to identify your non-english-native accent, which you wouldn't have one being Australian.
- markerz 2y agoDoubt it. I'm traveling in Hawaii right now and am Chinese-American who can speak Spanish, but it labeled me as Hindi/Urdu.
- imalerba 2y agoSo I picked up the Czech accent but not the language, dang.
- WithinReason 2y agoguessed 100% czech for me as well, wrongly
- glandium 2y agoI'm in Japan, it correctly detected French. Can't be much further away geolocation wise.
- guytv 2y agoworked 100% identifying my accent
- evan_ 2y agoInteresting, I was hoping it would be more specific than "English" (e.g. "Southern Illinois"), but I'm sure that's just around the corner. It looks like this is an advertisement for a product to "lose" your accent, so as long as you sound like a native English-speaker they're happy. I tried again using an outrageously bad (probably to the point of offense) Scottish brogue and it pegged it as German.
- M3L0NM4N 2y agoA part of my family is from rural southern Illinois. There is certainly an accent, and not a pretty one.
- mp3il 2y agoAwesome growth move, love it
- sneeze-slayer 2y agoSeems pretty bad. I tried it and got 99% Dutch but have never lived in the Netherlands.
- goshx 2y agoI guess I don't have my native language's accent (which I tend to hear from native English speakers). It guessed Hebrew. My native language is Portuguese.
- satoqz 2y agoWell, as a German native speaker I’m quite satisfied that I can trick it into thinking I’m English :)
- loevborg 2y agoNot me, I came out as 98% German. Oh well, I just need to own it!
- tetha 2y ago95% german, 5% dutch. Guess I can't stop schnacking on platt to some degree. Though this is raising the fun question: What makes a german accent in english? Harsh consonants? Is there some wiki or some articles to read up on that?
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoI don't know any articles about it, but as a native English speaker that learned German and participated in a German exchange student program... The ones that first come to mind for me are: - The "th" sound. It's often pronounced like "z" (like the s in German's "sein"). So "that" becomes "zat". - W becomes V, ie, "When" becomes "ven". - The short "a" as in "cat" turns into "eh". "Laptop" becomes "Leptop".
- ltbarcly3 2y agoI tried it and it guessed correctly, but it can only guess between native and non-native accents. It can't guess "chicago" or something.
- andoando 2y agoHoly shit. I grew up in Armenia when I was 8 and been in the US for 22 years, and by all accounts English is my primary language, and this got it spot on, with 84% confidence. Was not expecting that for such a unknown accent. I am guessing this was not trained on a dataset of people speaking English in various accents, but rather is directly detecting your native language.
- rougka 2y agoAI fingerprints your voice and sells it to ad companies
- DAGdug 2y agoWhat does this mean - could you elaborate on what you mean by ad companies and how they would use voice data?
- jl6 2y agoProbably 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.
- anadalakra 2y agoNot true - from the makers :)
- vidarh 2y agoIt guesses Swedish for me. I'm Norwegian. While they have some similar quirks, like sounding "sing-song-y" to a lot of native English speakers, Swedish and Norwegian English accents are usually quite distinguishable from each other. Given our (good-natured) neighbor-rivalry I'm of course horribly offended.
- yandie 2y agoI've a very mixed accent and it just pretty much throw a random country in SE Asia (correct region) with different tries.
- world2vec 2y agoNot even close, top 3 are geographically all on the other side of Europe. Nice try.
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- personalityson 2y agoIt guessed right, but it does not go by the accent, but by pronunciation of certain consonants. You can fake/simulate the former, but not the latter.
- brap 2y agoWhen I intentionally spoke in my native accent (which is not something I normally do), it guessed it with 100% confidence, even though it's not very common. Impressive. When I spoke like I normally do, it wasn't able to get anything on the first try, and on the second attempt it guessed 3 very different accents (e.g. Danish, Persian, ...) with more or less equal confidence. But it didn't guess my native accent at all. Huh, I always thought I sound almost American. Looks like my accent is untraceable at best.
- keybored 2y agoI did a sing-songy Swedish impression and it got that right.
- jmdelatorre 2y agoIt guessed Spanish but I was expecting Chilean Spanish which is very different from your other Spanishes around the world.
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- joshuamcginnis 2y agoDid I just train a spam bot to use my voice?
- tartoran 2y agoThis tool works pretty well, it guessed me right as well as few of my coworkers who are from a different parts of the world and none of us have obvious accents. This is scary good but I'm afraid privacy will be impossible in the future, we'll be analyzed and categorized instantly. The only barrier to completely losing privacy is our own thoughts.
- jampa 2y agoI knew my accent was strong, but I didn't expect to get 100% Portuguese, which is strange since Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Maybe it considers both accents to be Portuguese? A fun fact: When using Whisper by OpenAI, there seems to be a ~1% chance that all my text, which was spoken entirely in English, is automatically transcribed and translated into pt-BR without any prompting. It happens more often when I am not paying too much attention to pronunciation. The weird thing is that all the words were transcribed correctly (beyond being entirely in a different language)
- bossyTeacher 2y ago> Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Surely you mean the opposite? Portugal is literally next to Spain and both languages have coexisted since they were both born following Rome's fall. Both Galician and Portugal's Portugese are likely similar to each other and closer to Spanish than Brazil's Portuguese
- msoad 2y agoNo. I literally thought people in Portugal are speaking Russian at first!
- 77pt77 2y agoHe is correct. I've heard it described as if a drunk russian was trying to speak spanish.
- rcruzeiro 2y agoOne cool fact is that Galician sounds closer to Brazilian Portuguese. It also has much of the same vocabulary (with the notable exception of the days of the week which it borrows from the other Romance languages while Portuguese has its boring days of the week)
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- specproc 2y agoDidn't get my farm-Brummie.
- dboreham 2y agoHmm. I was expecting something that can differentiate between Stirling and Dunblane. Based on the comments it seems no.
- nu11ptr 2y agoNot 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.
- RajT88 2y agoI 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.
- gf000 2y agoAs they explain, it is mostly meant for non-native speakers, so your "bad" experience is expected. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42393649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42393649 As a non-native speaker, it is very very accurate even for Hungarian, which is quite a tiny language. I have sent it to several friends and it "caught" them all.
- ookblah 2y agoVery interesting, I also got Spanish, Chinese, and english. Lifelong midwesterner here as well. Maybe there's something to the midwest.
- bkovacev 2y agoI'm genuinely surprised it got my accent right. Coming from Serbia, I'd never expect to get it right. My first guess was that it's geo-ip based, but I could be wrong.
- jcmp 2y agoa lot of my international friends tried it form the same german wifi and it got all right :)
- itsadok 2y agoThe 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 passably immitate various English accents, like Australian, Irish and so forth, for fun. I know that ChatGPT Voice can do accents pretty well, I've been wondering if it would also be able to help me with mine, but I haven't tried it seriously. [1] https://www.boldvoice.com/frequently-asked-questions https://www.boldvoice.com/frequently-asked-questions
- keybored 2y ago> The app this is advertising helps non-native speakers with their accent, I assume to sound more American. Do people want to learn to speak English like a twangy guitar on purpose?
- elmerfud 2y agoI could absolutely see people be willing to pay for this. I am from the Midwest in the United States and I happened to be at an airport in some foreign country. Someone else heard me talking and they came up and asked me where I learned to speak English because it was so smooth. They were looking to get lessons to make their English better or at least more smooth. I thought their English was fine and they were a bit disappointed when I mentioned I was from the United States.
- psb 2y agoI would pay for an equivalent app that helped my German pronunciation
- glandium 2y agoI would be interested in an equivalent app for Japanese.
- glandium 2y agoIt's kind of annoying when services like this provide a free trial that you have to give a credit card number to even try, capitalizing on people forgetting to unsubscribe after trying. Also, I'm very suspicious when a credit card form is on $site.com rather than $financial-institution.com
- kyleblarson 2y agoWould be cool if it could detect area specific accents. I grew up in Kentucky and tried it in a very thick Eastern KY accent and it just said native english speaker. (technically true) Here's what it sounds like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8vHRH9A6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8vHRH9A6M
- xyst 2y agothis is the gen z/gen alpha equivalent of those "useless" personality surveys. stop feeding these companies your data.
- noncoml 2y agoBold voice is an app for improving your accent. This makes a case for a legitimate publicity stunt.
- mococa 2y agoIn my case, it said twice that it was Portuguese, but it’s wrong, it should be Brazilian. :-)
- stuckkeys 2y agoTried it. You know for science. Told me 99% Russian. WRONG! I guess, "Good luck" to you Bryan Mills.
- souvlakee 2y ago100% russian, sad.
- felipelalli 2y ago<<Your accent is Persian my friend. I identified your accent based on subtle details in your pronunciation. Listen to your audio, and bask in my predictive abilities.>> --- Wrong, my friend! I'm Brazilian and I speak Portuguese.
- tristor 2y agoThis was less interesting than I was hoping for, because it wasn't specific. It said I don't have a non-native English accent. Great, I already knew that. But I'm curious if it could place my regional accent in the United States. I'm originally from the Southern Midwest which has a distinct accent, but have made a great effort to neutralize my accent and believe I now sound neutrally American (what used to be called Nebraska Newscaster). Sounds like others tried and had similar results (not identifying Australian or Irish accents).
- trashchomper 2y agoYep, as a New Zealander/Australian (spent half my life in both) I was curious what it would give me. Turns out "native english speaker" is all you get. Even if I really put it on thick
- jackdawed 2y agoThis was a big confidence booster for me as when I first started learning English, people would complement me on how well I spoke English, but I took that as my accent was still detectable. It's only been in the past 5 years that people assumed I was American and made no comment on my English at all, until I disclosed that English was my second language. It's usually certain words that give me trouble, like "cupboard" or "chef". The AI detected my accent as a mixture of German and English. When I tried to exaggerate my accent, it correctly detected Thai.
- shusaku 2y agoIt’s funny because an app like this is probably more entertaining if it gets the wrong answer!
- create-username 2y agothose words are your Shibboleths, words that give your origin away. When I was in Germany, friendly people used to compliment me on my language skill saying "your German is good!". To which I would reciprocate: "thanks, yours too!"
- dhosek 2y agoMy ex-wife whose native language is Spanish worked hard to eliminate her accent because she got tired of people calling her accent “cute.” Her shibboleths were anything with a schwa. The whole concept of schwas offends her sense of vocalic purity.
- donohoe 2y agoIt told me my accent was Spanish. I'm a native English speaker from Ireland living in NYC :)
- bmitc 2y agoWasn't even close. It suggested a language I do not speak.
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- MisterBastahrd 2y agoWell, that's a terrible way to market a product. Not only do I not speak Hindi, but I also don't sound like I speak Hindi.
- layer8 2y ago…or so you think. ;)
- rahimnathwani 2y agoFor me: English: 91% Nigerian: 4% Spanish: 3%
- davidw 2y agoMy wife is Italian. It guessed Greek.
- jart 2y ago97% English? Boring. It should be able to detect regional English dialects. I want to know what kind of English.
- chamanbuga 2y agoThe 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.
- 1317 2y agoquite disappointing, it just said English and nothing else well yes, but tell me what region! or something other than just stating the obvious
- anadalakra 2y agoFun 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.
- ks2048 2y agoDoesn't work in Firefox. Edit: Firefox 133.0. Console shows error giving url: https://react.dev/errors/418?invariant=418 https://react.dev/errors/418?invariant=418
- 77pt77 2y agoWhat do you have to say about all the claims this is just a pretext to clone voices for nefarious ends?
- anadalakra 2y agoConspiracy theories are fun! But we're a language learning app (YC s21). We help non native English speakers to work on their accents so they can speak English confidently. The accent oracle is a marketing tool for us to get in front of new users.
- neom 2y agoI have a particularly flat affect, apparently due to my autism, this thing could only tell I'm a native english speaker.
- hyperbovine 2y agoIt 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.
- binary132 2y agoI’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.
- anadalakra 2y agoNice 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.
- binary132 2y agoI’m not suggesting you change your product. I’m simply explaining what I personally would be interested in. That said, if you want to teach people to speak with an “American accent”, you should probably be aware that there is no “American accent”, only regional accents.
- anadalakra 2y agoThanks - we're aware! There's also a concept of a general American accent. Since the app is for non-native English speakers, a general American accent is the goal more so than a regional accent. We built the app together with professional accent coaches -- if you're interested in our methodology, you can learn more on boldvoice.com.
- pessimizer 2y agoHave you thought of expanding to native American English speakers who want to learn a more "standard" accent? There are many Americans who feel that their strong regional accent (think e.g. Chicago, Mississippi, Baltimore, and different black accents) can be career-limiting.
- imbnwa 2y agoI honestly thought that's what this was about lol
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- 3836293648 2y agoSpeaking 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?
- oytis 2y agoNot quite, but pretty close, I am impressed. I'd say it's doing better than most people at least for me
- throw646577 2y agoCongratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.
- sebzim4500 2y agoI 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?
- IggleSniggle 2y agoMaybe IP correlation?
- throw646577 2y agoThat too I guess. And it sets a few cookies.
- throw646577 2y agoI don't mean to suggest that this particular toy is much use. I just mean you should not give random internet games standardised samples of your voice, for this reason. It's a standardised sample, already correlated to text, close to the microphone, for one thing. You're just making it easier for them. I mean I suppose you can use "like and subscribe", "without further ado", and "let's get started" as standardised samples if you want to catch a youtuber. But AFAIK my voice isn't on the internet anywhere. Quite a lot of people are not. There's a number of ways this information can be connected back, with varying precision, to the person who recorded it. And we should have learned from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that data is used in ways we do not expect. For example, what if you don't care to reproduce someone's voice, but you do care to extract age/gender/racial background/sexual orientation from it?
- mavhc 2y agoOr teach people not to trust that you said something just because something sounds like you. Use actual authentication instead of implied. Same for photos, videos
- EGreg 2y agohttps://start.boldvoice.com/accent-guesser https://start.boldvoice.com/accent-guesser
- gobins 2y agoInteresting 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.
- amelius 2y agoMaybe the GPS signal was slightly off ;)
- muhammadusman 2y agoI'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.
- adverbly 2y agoI tried my best Arnold Schwarzenegger accent. It had me as English, French and Spanish. I'm not very good at accents to be fair.
- wigster 2y agoi'm english - it gave me 99% danish, 1% swedish. hmmm
- corpMaverick 2y agoMay be you are Danish but you don't know. Time to ask your parents.
- a13n 2y agoDid my best Borat voice and got Italian → Russian → Bulgarian.
- belfalas 2y agoFor a really hard one give it audio of William F Buckley!
- Oarch 2y agoOr Moira Rose
- harel 2y agoGot my accent wrong twice in a row. Was not even close.
- gauravphoenix 2y agoWhenever time permits, I have a (bad) habit of viewing source code of new website. In this case, I found this on this website: (haven't read the js yet to see what's the true intent but surely a sign of horrible engineering) edit- seems like remix customizations. "remove-watch-video-requirement": { "defaultValue": false, "rules": [{ "condition": { "env": "prod", "email": { "$in": ["<redacted>@gmail.com", "redacted"] } }, "force": true }] }, "score-only-lesson-phoneme": { "defaultValue": true }, "auto-stop-recording-for-all-practice": { "defaultValue": true, "rules": [{ "condition": { "env": "prod", "email": { "$in": ["redacted", "redacted", "redacted@live.com"] } }, "force": false }] }, "use-speechace-v9": { "defaultValue": true }, "april-2022-price-increase-experiment": { "defaultValue": false, "rules": [{ "condition": { "env": "prod", "email": { "$in": ["redacted@usorov.com", "redacted@gmail.com", "redacted@gmail.com", "redacted@boldvoice.com", "redacted@gmail.com"] } }, "force": false
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- maxmcd 2y agoIt might be a kindness to redact those emails before you can no longer edit your post.
- sergiotapia 2y agoThat's amazing, I always thought I had no accent but there you go right on the money it guessed Spanish!
- dom96 2y agoWell, I am not a native English speaker and it says 77% English (and 6% Chinese, 5% Spanish). I guess I should take that to mean that my English is pretty good.
- cryptozeus 2y agoPreety spot on, very catchy. Got me to download your app, congratulations.
- kwakubiney 2y agoI'm Ghanaian: English: 44% Ghanaian: 36% Nigerian: 17% Not bad, as I have been accused of having a not-so-prominent English accent by people around me
- lopatin 2y agoMy mind is blown right now. My whole life I've been told that my speech is so American and that I don't have a Russian accent (left Russia when I was 4). Lo and behold, this app tells me that my accent is Russian (61%) with English being a distant second (13%).
- throwup238 2y agoI tried it and it said English 93% (left same age as you). Then I did my best Russian accent and on the first time it gave me Hindi/Urdu at 80+%. I tried it a second time rolling my r's a bit more and it settled on Russian at 70%. I think it's very sensitive to specific tells and I suspect the dataset for Russian accents may not account for all the variations in regional pronunciation and dialects.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoI left Russia around the same age and got 100% English. I can easily do a fake accent and get Russian though. Also some other accents like German, French and so on are pretty easy to get too.
- joeamroo 2y agoIt guessed me as a native speaker, I actually moved to the US at 17 so I'm proud of myself i guess :)
- glitchc 2y agoI can do different accents and it's pretty bad at figuring out my mother tongue.
- epolanski 2y agoRomanian/Albanian, couldn't fail more
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- laurentlb 2y agoI've tried the app (free trial), it's doing a good job at identifying issues in my pronunciation. It can rate my level and highlight the vowel / consonants within words that need improvement. The app looks quite good, but a bit expensive. I'd be very interested if it supports more languages in the future. I suspect they use the same technique for guessing the accent - detect which sounds are not well pronounced (and they have no interest in distinguishing accents amont native speakers).
- 0xE1337DAD 2y agoThis could be a fun party game where you have to fake a given accent and see how well it sounds.
- 0xE1337DAD 2y agoThis could be a fun party game where you are given a country and have to do your best accent.
- stavros 2y agoI got 89% Danish the first time, then 83% Hindi. I'm Greek.
- wkoszek 2y agoThe big question now would be: has anyone used BoldVoice or any other method to convert from 90%+ of accent A to 90%+ to accent B and can switch between those seemlessly?
- tommoor 2y agoI just get "English" - that's not an accent
- OptionOfT 2y agoWelp, time to start practicing in front of the mirror to get rid of that accent.
- chungy 2y agoWell, I spoke normally and it said it was unable to guess. Native speaker here from Washington state. :)
- fallinghawks 2y agoApparently my "accent" is 36% Russian, 16% Korean, and 13% Albanian, none of which are remotely correct.
- bromuro 2y agoWhat is your mother language then?
- fallinghawks 2y agoAmerican English
- jojobas 2y agoI was able to get it to classify me as spanish, hungarian, albanian and romanian. I think it mostly latches to intonations, not sounds as such.
- 00deadbeef 2y agoI’m British. It guessed I was Turkish.
- wheybags 2y agoThe homepage sort of implies that "having an accent" is something only non native speakers do? Like an accent only comes from your exotic mother tongue. Kinda weird. It told me I'm a native speaker, and I am a non American native speaker so... good I guess?
- tail_exchange 2y agoKind of hit-or-miss, apparently. It was extremely off with mine, and with my friends it was a 50/50 split.
- wsintra2022 2y agoReally fun is trying to do various accents and seeing what it thinks you sound like, I tried my best South African and it thought Japanese. Guess I need to work on my mimicry
- pixelpoet 2y agoI'm half South African and can do many of the different accents, notably Afrikaans, Cape Town (white and coloured) and black SA, they're all very different. I'm pretty sure most people think of Wickus v.d. Merwe from District 9, but that's not the only one! I can also speak a bunch of other languages without accent so good luck for any AI to fit me in a box :P
- jaylane 2y agowow… incredible
- bhouston 2y agoHmmm... it doesn't differentiate between English accents, like UK (actually there are a bunch of sub-accents), Canadian or US (of which there are a bunch of sub-accents.) It only does non-English accents I guess. That wasn't clear.
- bossyTeacher 2y agoSounds a bit too much to ask. Getting enough labelled training data for each English speaking country (why would you even class the UK as one when England alone has dozens of accents?) in the world is likely a challenge
- bhouston 2y ago> Sounds a bit too much to ask. Getting enough labelled training data for each English speaking country (why would you even class the UK as one when England alone has dozens of accents?) in the world is likely a challenge I am not sure that is the case. There is an AI accent generator that can do different English accents, sort of what I was suggesting to identify: https://www.narakeet.com/languages/british-accent-generator/#variants https://www.narakeet.com/languages/british-accent-generator/...
- geor9e 2y ago"English (US, UK, or AU)". There are dozens of regional accents lumped in that, come on, try harder. See https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz...
- areoform 2y agoThe AI couldn't guess my accent correctly which is OK as it's fairly non-standard. However, the onboarding flow needs work. I feel like it took too long to ask too little and it made the wrong assumptions. The app also crashed towards the end. NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node. at https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-NFFSPFRU.js:1:627 at Ti (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:22278) at _t (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:23972) at Xn (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:41320) at Bf (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:40880) at hn (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:39936) at Qo (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:36620) at pn (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:6:3250) at Bf (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:40935) at hn (https://start.boldvoice.com/build/_shared/chunk-WREYPQ4L.js:8:39936) re:assumptions I realize my experience is outside the norm. But there are "native" english speakers in most countries on Earth. Immigrants and expatriates are an example of one such community. The app assumes that there's only one kind of "native" speaker i.e. Americans, British folks and Australians. That's not the case. Over 80 countries have native english speakers. Many of them have accents that are outside the American and British norm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_English_is_an_official_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world
- nikolay 2y agoWow! It guessed my Bulgarian accent!
- msoad 2y agoI don't think anyone else in Europe rolls their Rs as much as Bulgarians. It's a give away! It recognizes my accent correctly too btw
- Svoka 2y agoSo, I'm Ukrainian, and it says I have 100% russian accent. It can go fuck itself to be honest.
- kimkira 2y agoare u kidding? lol Russian and Ukrainian are the same thing. It’s slavic
- aguaviva 2y agoLike Spanish and Italian are the same thing. Because they're both Latin.
- Svoka 2y agoFirst, they are not same thing. If they would be same thing, russians could speak or understand Ukrainian language (they can't). Second - I don't have russian accent. I don't even speak russian. I could agree that it can be 'slavic accent' but why attribute it to russia, majority of which is non-slavic literally Asia?
- mudil 2y agoSame here.
- Svoka 2y agoGuess what - russsian developer. Who knew.
- dec0dedab0de 2y agoI got English 57%, Spanish 23%, Hindi/Urdu 14% I am from south jersey and close enough to philly to have a similar accent. I have been traveling and had people pinpoint where I was from multiple times. Its making me wonder if my reading voice is more proper. Or possibly the thing just doesn’t work.
- cblum 2y agoI'm not a native English speaker, but that's what it guessed. Over the years, starting in my late teens (I'm in my late 30s now), I've put TONS of effort into sounding like a native speaker (moving to the US 10+ years ago has certainly helped). I feel so validated right now :)
- davidgay 2y agoWell my regular accent just confuses it, though it did think it was French when I put on my "fake" French accent at least... This is arguably somewhat aligned with the usual reaction which goes 50/50 between "English accent" and "I have no idea" ;) [English-from-England is my native language, but I did live in Switzerland from age 4, and USA from age 27]
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoIt guesses Danish for me. I was born in the UK, had mostly an east London accent, been in the US for 35 years 23 of which where in Philadelphia. Better luck next time!
- halostatue 2y agoComplete garbage. Native USA-born (but well travelled) English speaker and it tagged me with Swahili (24%), French (19%), and Persian (19%). I was speaking quietly because it's late here, but that shouldn't have made a difference.
- DonaldFisk 2y agoI haven't tried it, as you get asked for the answers to common security questions, and supply a voice sample. You could lie but many people won't. My other issue is that it will have been trained on a large number of voice samples and no one will learn how to distinguish different accents by using it, or even by developing it. An alternative, knowledge-based approach, would work by splitting the speech into phonemes and matching phonemes/sequences of phonemes against known accents or foreign languages, e.g. if a native speaker rhymes "good" and "food", you can reliably tell they're either from Scotland or Ulster. Telling close accents apart is easy with the right phrases, e.g. "fish and chips" (Australian vs. New Zealand), "I saw the White House" (General American vs. Canadian). For non-native speakers, you can use the phoneme inventory of their native language, so if someone has difficulty in pronouncing "th" you can rule out Greek or Spanish (from Spain), and if someone has difficulty in pronouncing "f" they're probably Korean. Of course, that's a lot of work up front, but you'd learn a lot in the process of developing such a system, and it would be able to explain its decisions to users. And by asking you to repeat standard phrases (like "good food") you would allay security concerns.
- rcruzeiro 2y agoHave we tested the same website? You don’t get asked anything. You just read a text.
- DonaldFisk 2y agoA couple of comments implied this. If you just read some text, security is much less of an issue. So I tried it. It guessed (correctly) that I'm a native English speaker. It only tells you which foreign accent you have.
- the_mar 2y ago"native English speaker" - is many different accents
- glandium 2y agoThe app this is kind of a PR for does phoneme-level analysis, so for all we know, this AI could be doing that as well. See https://youtu.be/j6z2WHAvqEs?t=100 https://youtu.be/j6z2WHAvqEs?t=100
- mudil 2y agoI am from Ukraine but it labeled me Russian. I guess, we'll have to fight for recognition some more.
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- pjmlp 2y agoSo I am special, and what he guessed has nothing to do with Portuguese.
- dzonga 2y agoi wonder if people from liverpool speak - what do they get ?
- eqvinox 2y agoDoes it ask everyone to do two rounds or was that just me? It did say something like "you're special, retrying" but who knows... (It guessed correctly after the 2nd round)
- aquir 2y agoWhoa, guessed it correctly! And it was 100% sure about it. This is a nice ad for and app, well done
- iammjm 2y agoVery cool, it got me right even though I am not an easy case, as I speak several languages and not use my mother tongue much anymore
- stuaxo 2y agoThis is just so they can steal everyone's voice, avoid.
- user453 2y agoMy whole life has been a lie, thought I was danish but apparently I'm burmese
- Pet_Ant 2y agoWhat I really want is an AI to translate difficult accents into ones more familiar to me because there is lots of content that is just too taxing for me to listen due to the mental load.
- hughdbrown 2y agoCanadian-born, 26 years in US: - 65% English, 10% Dutch, 9% Russian - 90% English, 3% Spanish, 2% German - 89% English, 5% Spanish, 3% Russian
- waffletower 2y agoI'll be impressed when it can tell me I have a California English accent. Surprised it doesn't even discriminate the vast pronunciation differences between British, Oceanic, Caribbean, African and American native English accents.
- sunshinerag 2y agowhat a great way to farm voice data.
- egberts1 2y agoDeaf, me, here. They couldn't guess my accent (they were all over the world, each time I tried it).
- ddmf 2y agoNae Scottish.
- sndlr 2y agoIt doesn't work - it seemed to catch my accent once I ran it a couple of times on the same browser, but... in the incognito mode, it fails every single time, ranging from French and Swedish to Swahili. :D When I mumbled a bit and lowered my voice, it said 97% English, lol. Maybe its model treats mumbling as the UK, hard to say. When I added a bit of "R," it immediately recognized me as Russian, ignoring everything else. And when I increased my pitch without changing anything else, it started detecting Persian and Spanish. When I used a proxy server pointing to Scandinavia, it started detecting Swedish, lol. Fake as hell. I'm Polish, btw.
- Svoka 2y agoHaha. Developer of app is russian. It seems that in best russian imperialistic tradition he thinks that anything repotely Slavic is russian.
- hacker002 2y ago"This reminds me of a tool I found recently:https://accentvoice.net https://accentvoice.net
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