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We actually did something like this for non-native English speakers a few months back. Check out https://accentoracle.com (most mind-blowing if you're a non native English speaker)

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Well, it says I'm Finish. But now I have a new game, where I put on my best Italian or Russian or Greek or Australian accent and try to see how close I am.

I'm terrible, according to the program. My Italian is Russian or Hungarian or Swedish, my Australian is English.

New party game unlocked.

Amazing! If you can make it go viral again too, I will love you!

I've been building that exact game

accentgame.xyz

Fun. I have a strongly modulated North American midwestern accent so unsurprisingly it had me read several paragraphs before only being able to say with any certainty that my accent was 83% English with the rest being Spanish/Russian. It couldn't detect the country of origin.

Agreed, pretty meh. Tried my usual accent (the one where natives mostly can’t tell where I'm from) — got 78%. Then went full cartoon russian ‘bad neighborhood’ mode — somehow scored 68%.

Interestingly enough, it thought I was Russian, even though my native language is French. It was tied at 32% with French though.

Edit: Tried it a few times and also got English as an accent. Pretty fun application!

I would love to be able to explore combinations of X spoken language with Y accent, like for example I've always been curious how French sounds spoken with an Indian accent.

It detects my non-native English accent correctly, but then it makes the mistaken assumption that I want to sound like an American of all things?

I'm 42% Arabic apparently! And 20% Russian. Got an 81% American accent level. I guess it is tuned to non-native-English speaker accents.

Was that right? Or what is the correct native language it should have predicted? Note the %s in the accent breakdown section are prediction probabilities

Native English speaker with a rolled-R accent, so I can see why it picked Arabic/Russian.

Swiss-German accent doesn't seem to be on the list, so it guessed mostly Swedish.

Wow that was actually accurate

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