Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in English

Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by chpatrick on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @07:06PM (#43910584)

That kind of implies that there's a "correct" accent for English, even though many countries and regions natively speak it. Someone from Glasgow is just as much of a native speaker as someone from Los Angeles even though the accents are wildly different.

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Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by gxs on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @08:32PM (#43911070)

Hence in quotes, man

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Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by asveikau on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @10:15PM (#43911607)

I've literally heard a story of a kid arriving to the US from Scotland and being sent to speech therapy to remove a Scottish accent.

And I've heard other such stories of American schools flagging kids for speech therapy when what they have is an accent. I feel like Americans are actually some of the worst about that.

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Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by gxs on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @11:37PM (#43912032)

Huh? I’m talking about my own post where I said maybe they want to feel like the are speaking “correctly” - I added the quotes because obviously what’s correct is debatable

Besides it’s not like there isn’t correct either - if you’re out in the Midwest what’s correct is just what everyone is speaking.

Its obvious that a kid from Ohio who speaks perfect isn’t going to go to Scotland and speak it “correctly”

Like it’s such low hanging fruit to always be that guy to point out the lowest level, most obvious exception

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Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in... by UltraSane on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @04:05AM (#43913249)

A strong enough accent can make someone impossible to understand.

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