How do you pronounce usernames?

Angst in Danish, how it's supposed to be.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1zepnEXBdH3

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JoanK said:
Angst
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:rotfl:
 
Borachio said:
Yes, I realize that linguistics is largely about this sort of thing.

Nevertheless, it's interesting as to what actually can be rigorously defined as identical phonemes. It seems to be a largely arbitrary definition based on what people's culturally attuned ears have been educated to accept.

It is an immensely complex subject - of which I sadly know very little.

Speech recognition software still has considerable difficulty in simply distinguishing words from each other, for example.
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Not largely. Mostly just the phonetics subfield and a twinge of historical linguistics.

Everything in language is arbitrary. That's the point to phonemes: discovering the arbitrary divides a language has created for itself and how that differs from other languages.

Yeah. I couldn't imagine trying to configure a speech recognition device to distinguish aspirated and unaspirated sounds, which are separate phonemes in Hindi. Designing an English recognition device capable of understanding the diverse dialectical differences in the language, including the elimination of a mid-low back vowel in American English (cot and caught are pronounced the same way here), and the heavy velarization of consonants in the Indian variant.
 
I need to find my microphone... I have always been told I have a weird accent (Being half German, half Guatemalan, and having grown up in the South)

Edit: I can't find it at the minute
 
What a mean trick to play on me!

Though having listened to your voices, I thought it only fair to record mine. It is what it is.
 
No you have a very agreeable voice, truly you do. I like British accents in general as well (except those Cockneye's :yuck:).

On the other hand, fake British accents are like nails-on-chalkboard. There was some movie I saw recently (can't recall which one) where there was a bunch of American actors who all spoke in fake British accents and it was atrocious. Truly a crime against humanity, that.
 
Gucumatz said:
I need to find my microphone... I have always been told I have a weird accent (Being half German, half Guatemalan, and having grown up in the South)

Edit: I can't find it at the minute
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I'd like to hear that!

Hmm, I might put my voice up, just to see if I even have an identifiable accent. I think I just fall under Midwestern "news anchor" accent, i.e. the boring one with the least amount of flair to it.
 
CAT-tah.
 
Crez-tha
 
Owen Glyndwr said:
Yeah. I couldn't imagine trying to configure a speech recognition device to distinguish aspirated and unaspirated sounds, which are separate phonemes in Hindi. Designing an English recognition device capable of understanding the diverse dialectical differences in the language, including the elimination of a mid-low back vowel in American English (cot and caught are pronounced the same way here), and the heavy velarization of consonants in the Indian variant.
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You would have to look at the words around it, and what makes sense in context, no? Just like humans do!
 
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