[avalys]

I (an American from suburban Connecticut) was recently in London for an event and someone misheard me. Another Londoner said “It’s because of your accent!”, which of course was nonsense to me. What accent?

I’d be really interested to play with this tool and see what it thinks of my accent. Can it tell where I grew up? Can it tell what my parents’ native languages are (not English!)

A free tool like this would be great marketing for this company.

[ilyausorov]

We did built two free tools, which are geared towards non-native English speakers. You can find them at https://accentoracle.com and https://accentfilter.com. They're less effective for English native speakers, but could still be fun.

[dhosek]

What I find interesting is that it seems that folks from the UK tend to focus on consonants in distinguishing accents while in the US we distinguish more on vowels.