Re:Is Your English Accent British or American?
by corndoge on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:11AM
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I'm American and it put me at 66% British...
Edit: and now 99% British every time. Methinks the site is broken.
Re:Is Your English Accent British or American?
by _delirium on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:22AM
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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.
Re:Is Your English Accent British or American?
by asveikau on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:29AM
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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.
Re:Is Your English Accent British or American?
by barsonme on Sunday January 14, 2018 @02:45AM
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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.
Would be cool to see if it had any data for identifying some more specific American accents though.