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IshKebab on May 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent stre...

> Accent strength is just ... distance from the accent of a socially dominant group.

Yes, that is a good definition of accent strength.

> There's no such thing as accent strength.

??! You literally just defined it.

PaulDavisThe1st on May 6, 2025 [–]

Which "socially dominant group" would you pick in the United States? Or the UK?

IshKebab on May 7, 2025 | [–]

Native white middle class, from the South East. BBC accent is fairly neutral these days. If you're American, someone like John Oliver has a very neutral English accent.

I'm not American so I don't want to comment on that.

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