Sentence examples for identifying accents from inspiring English sources

Americans can be bad at identifying accents.

This can be overcome by correctly identifying the accent or dialect of the speaker and using accent or dialect information to adapt speech recognition systems.

If your mother tongue is English then you may make an excellent transcriptionist in English, however if Spanish and you have learned English later, you may have a problem when identifying some obscure accents.

Notably the patent allows for a bit of cheating on the system's part: it doesn't have to scramble during the first few seconds to identify your accent, but can stack the deck a bit by checking the device's location, phone number, previous accents encountered on that line or, of course, simply allowing the speaker to pick their accent manually.

We can say 'oh, that person has an accent' or 'they don't talk like me' but we're really bad at identifying what that accent is".

There weren't any easy to (at least generically) identify southern U.S. accents or New York/New Jersey accents.

French and Italians, they found, were identified by their accents; Orientals were characterized by their looks.

Results of a behavioral test evaluating the ability of listeners to identify the 3 accents correctly are summarized in Figure 1.

Coaching is a matter of identifying what parts of an accent are central and converting them into forms that can be taught: "In the North we tend to say we have 'ten fingers,' but in the South they might say 'tin.' " Meyer asked me what Monich was working on, and when I told her that he was coaching Gerard Butler she said, "Good luck with that".

Reliability may be influenced by the recognition of additional cues such as tattoos, scars, voice accent and unique identifying features on imaging films.

The tape surfaced a day after ABC News broadcast a threatening taped message from a man in traditional Arab dress who, speaking English with an American accent, identified himself as a follower of Mr. bin Laden.