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by ilyausorov 415 days ago
For sure, and I don't think we ever use the term default or neutral. The "the American English accent of our expert accent coach Eliza" is just that -- it's one accent.

As a learning platform that provides instruction to our users, we do need to set some kind of direction in our pedagogy, but we 100% recognize that there isn't just 1 American English accent, and there's lots of variance.

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Kids who grow up on US military bases have a very homogenized north american accent.