"We do not hear ourselves most of the time," said Dr. Harish Malhotra, chairman of the department of psychiatry at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., who for several years marketed accent-reduction lessons taught by speech clinicians to fellow immigrants from India.
In songs about breakups and misguided affairs, Ms. White sings with bright schoolgirl sassiness; she also chant-raps a few songs in an exaggerated down-market accent.
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But this Hyundai is also enjoyable and versatile enough that some shoppers might consider moving down-market to the Accent from larger, significantly more expensive cars like the indifferent Honda Civic, the decrepit Toyota Corolla and the stale Nissan Sentra.
But the GLS sedan tested by Mr. Huffman finds a way to put the pieces together better than any of its competitors, as he writes: This Hyundai is enjoyable and versatile enough that some shoppers might consider moving down-market to the Accent from larger, significantly more expensive cars like the indifferent Honda Civic, the decrepit Toyota Corolla and the stale Nissan Sentra.
In the last decade or so there has been a shift in the accent of marketing, a new stage of commodification that the economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin designated "cultural capitalism".
"It's dreadful," he said of the New York junk market, in his quick, clipped accent.
Essentially, it was, "If you say Compare the Market in a dodgy Russian accent it sounds a bit like meerkat".
The release of Proloquo2Go's boy and girl voices — the company also has two other children's voices with a British accent for that market — is an indicator of new progress in the decades-old text-to-speech industry.
