JCC Test your fake British or American accent

So there's this AI developed by scientists to try to understand natural human accents... Let's screw with it!

Just go here and speak the sentence in your best fake British or American accent. Test it with various regional accents for fun, then we'll see how bad we are at it.

My fake accents:
Scottish - 95% British
London - 94% British
Yorkshire - 55% British
Liverpool - 60% British
West Country - 55% British

My real accent (American midlands) - 98% American.

I'd say for me these are pretty accurate at portraying how good or bad my fake accents are. My Scottish accent (more Edinburgh than Glasgow) nailed it, though.

 

Hi. Your Scottish accent isn't as good as you think.

Bye.

 

I already know I'm terrible at accents including my native one.

 

Normal: 96% British
Fake British: 99%.
South African: 99% British...

Erm.

 

78% British.

Beh. Anglocentric.

 

To be fair, they say they are trying to work out if you speak English properly, or with an American accent...

 

According to the old Encyclopedia Brittanica, there's British English, American English, Canadian English, Australian/New Zealand English, India/Pakistan English, and African English. These are all major varieties of English, they can all be broken down in hundreds of dialects, and that's not including pidgins, creoles or second languages. So to whittle it down to two options is pretty meagre.

 

Yes but it's just software. We can't even get Wocky working properly.

Baby steps.

EDIT:
I've now done the 3 dialect variants of Australian English.

Cultivated (mine): 96% British
General: 74% British
Broad: 50% British

Examples of the cultivated are spoken by people like Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett. Like Received Pronunciation in Britain, it is dying out.

General Australian would be your Russell Crowes or Hugh Jackmans.

Broad would be everyone's favourite stingray tickler, Steve Irwin.

 

It does help to imagine Wocky's posts as sounding like they're spoken by a Speak & Spell.

 

I lived in England for a bit as a child but that didn't help me sound like anything but a kid from Central Illinois with a slightly rednecky accent now papered over with a slightly Chicagoish suburban accent.

 

I made a comment a few weeks or months ago about him being, by virtue of his binary coding and doctorate, Dr Sbaitso.

Oh dear god. It's closer to the truth than I realised...


@jp-30 @JoinTheSchwarz

 

I did my british accent and they said they were granting me citizenship it was so good.

 

It's really frustrating for an American to hear an Australian speak that way (cultivated accent). When we run into your kind at a cocktail party we usually insist that you're doing your accent wrong.

 

I sat next to a Kiwi couple at the Singapore GP, and they asked where I was from.

I said, "Sydney".

They said, "no, but originally?"

 

Did you tell them MI6 while flashing your Seamaster at them?

 

Yes, I told them I was born at the old SIS building Westminster Bridge Road. That's what I did. Yes. Very clever.

 

@Darth Punk, your score please.

 

Ender, did you grow up with the cultivated accent or did you purposefully, er, cultivate it? I don't if it's like RP where you only learn it, and don't acquire it naturally.

Also, my fav Aussie accent is Queensland, hands down.

I never said it was *great*. But it's certainly way better than most, say, terrible American actors. Want to make a silly bet that it's at least *better* than you think it will be?

 

Sure, I’ll make a bet I’m guaranteed to win.

 

Ender Sai is a huge Anglophile. Of course he cultivated it.

 

Well there's no Queensland accent per se. We don't do regional or geographic accents, which is quite rare.

Now, it would be fair to state Queensland is very much the home of broad accent but Geoffrey Rush is from Brisbane originally so you get that whole class/education thing playing a part.

What can help you identify where people are from is regional slang terms, i.e what people call swimwear is a good indicator.

And yes, I grew up with it. It was just the Done Thing.

 

RP?
Rural Pennsylvanian?