The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster ...

Motherwell's much-travelled new striker is a big fan of writer Tolkien's Lord of the Rings - or the cinematic trilogy at least. "I've never spoken in a Scottish accent but I really like it, I love ...

Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova is learning in real time what it means to be attached to a hit. On The Wayne Ayers Podcast, the Toronto-born performer spoke candidly about her upbringing across… The post ...

AlleyWatch sat down with BoldVoice Cofounder and CEO Anada Lakra to learn more about the business, its future plans, recent ...

Hlomla Dandala reveals discrimination on the set of 'Isidingo: The Need' due to his English accent, detailing his struggles ...

BoldVoice raises funding to scale AI speech coaching with global users and new models in a fast-growing communication market.

Research shows that people with non-mainstream or non-native accents are less likely to be promoted and earn lower wages. Even communicating with peers can be increasingly hard as speech barriers come ...

My Dear Shepherds, I’ve wondered if I might have made the preaching big leagues if I’d just had an accent. British, say, or ...

Sure, actors are simply "playing a part". But performances such as Chalamet’s upend the fragile divide between who someone ...

The core objective of this study is to develop a novel method to measure and improve standard spoken English pronunciation accuracy in relation to a desired accent style using current speech ...

In this video, I explore the subplot of Colin Frissell in *Love Actually*, analyzing whether his British accent is genuinely charming to Americans or if there's a cultural misunderstanding at play. I ...

Accents mismatching is a critical problem for end-to-end ASR. This paper aims to address this problem by building an accent-robust RNN-T system with domain adversarial training (DAT). We unveil the ...