Sentence examples for a specific accent from inspiring English sources

It would be a machine learning model, of course, or rather a set of them, each trained on several hours of speech by people with a specific accent.

She urged actors to speak in a set way that she called "Good American Speech" when not playing roles requiring a specific accent or dialect.

Skinner taught what she dubbed "Good American Speech," a way of pronouncing words that could serve as the default sound for roles that did not demand a specific accent.

Nevertheless, take that monochrome look and spice it up with a specific accent color.

The critic and historian Leonard Feather explained Mr. Jones's significance this way: "His main achievement was the creation of what might be called a circle of sound, a continuum in which no beat of the bar was necessarily indicated by any specific accent, yet the overall feeling became a tremendously dynamic and rhythmically important part of the whole group".

"They wanted a very specific accent from a particular social class in a particular area outside London.

The notion that people with a specific regional accent are biased towards those with different accents is backed up by the findings of research by Dr Stephan Heblich.

Even so, the perception of the specific accent is somewhat subjective; some may think a subject with foreign accent syndrome sounds Russian; another, German.

It was more just listening to people from New Jersey and working out what would work for this character, because there is no kind of specific accent of New Jersey.

Although accent prejudice is possibly a case of people discriminating against those with any accent different to their own, rather than specific accents being targeted, this is still likely to have a disproportionate impact on some regions.

Yet they retain all the intimate texture of their flirtations and brutalities, their specific accents, schemes, talents, failings and pedigrees.