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> Accents, even heavy ones, aren't much of a problem. I strongly disagree. I stopped watching Chrome DevTools update videos a few years back because I have dif

• triceratops 1y ago
  Sounds fine to me. Not even in the top 10 heaviest accents I've heard in my career.
  • bakje 1y ago
    If English isn’t your first language it can be very hard to understand someone if they have an accent you’re not used to.
  • baxuz 1y ago
    It's not in my top 10 either, but I don't have examples of those. I can understand her if I'm try hard, but I think that listening to a speaker shouldn't require active effort in order to understand them.
• socalgal2 1y ago
  Is this a problem solved by current or near current tech? Like (1) you can read the transcript or captions (2) you can get it respoken by some tech? I guess I'm used to those accents though. I wouldn't have brought this up but I recently ran into an auto translated youtube video. I have my youtube set to Japanese. I watched a presentation I know was in English but Youtube presented it with Japanese voices. I didn't actually want that and couldn't find how to turn it off but I was still impressed. So maybe that can add dialets so you can choose California English and someone else can choose Singlish and someone else can choose Scotish English, etc...
  • jen20 1y ago
    I don’t know which accent this is referring to, but if I was going to read the transcript I’d rather it was just a post which had also been edited.
• agos 1y ago
  that's a really tough accent. luckily the video has excellent subtitles, which reminds us that accessibility is important for everyone, not only for the impaired