English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Pter — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:53:14 GMT

Yet another Micro$oft attempt to dominate the web. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Kooyeen — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:41:22 GMT

CalifJim
Isn't anyone standardizing this stuff?

Yes, but everyone wants their new product. Everyone wants their patents and their copyrights. Everyone wants to further complicate badly designed systems instead of simplifying them. Everyone wants to invent something new, no matter how useless, dangerous, meaningless or crappy it is. Everyone wants everything to look good, fashionable and indispensable, no matter whether it works well, no matter how it works, no matter whether there's lots of better options.

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Mosca — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:22:59 GMT

Hi Jim, you're definately NOT naive, on the contrary, we're simply caught in the middle of the different software vendors fighting to promote their format .. standards are merely decided by a survival of the "fattest" process ..

be interested to hear your opinion on the subject though.

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

CalifJim — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:24:03 GMT

[off-topic]

Geez! How many different formats are there for videos?

Every time I turn around these days, it's fifteen more downloads to play anything.

Isn't anyone standardizing this stuff?

(My question may reveal how naive I am about these things.)

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Mosca — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:59:49 GMT

Interesting .. really didn't think it worked that way .. thanks for letting me know.

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Grammar Geek — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:24:09 GMT

I can't tell that they are clearly Canadian, but I can tell they are not from the deep South, or New England, or New Jersey, or Brooklyn.

There's a vast "Middle America" in which the accent is not very distinct at all.

Then, in the middle of the country, the further north you go, the more the vowels in words like "out" or "house" change from an "ow" sound to an "oo" sound, and this fellow had just enough "oo" to make me think he was either from the northern part of the Midwest or Canadian.

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Clive — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:54:41 GMT

Hi,

I can't play this link.

But generally speaking, I can't listen to someone speaking English and decide clearly that they are Canadian.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Anonymous — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:46:19 GMT

That's kind of is interesting - isn't the distinction between Candian and US english totally clearcut for you people "involved"? No offense, I'm just curious.

R/M

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Grammar Geek — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:01:42 GMT

I wouldn't be surprised to find out he's Canadian. He's "o" sounds sound north of our border, although also typical of the very northern Midwest.

I'd be interested to hear if Clive agrees.

AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Mosca — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:02:26 GMT

Here's a native ae speaker - who does a great presentation - however I'd like to know what kind of accent this guy's most probably using as I noticed his accent doesn't sound as thick as usually.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=710