Variety

‘Task’ Dialect Coach on Getting the Cast to Make Those Very Specific Pennsylvania Sounds: ‘It’s Such a Strange Accent’

Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s ...
The Hollywood Reporter

How Accents Became Hollywood’s New Six-Pack

From Florence Pugh to Paul Mescal, global stars are redefining what authenticity sounds like — and audiences are keeping score. By Remy Blumenfeld In today’s Hollywood, the wrong vowel can cost you ...
Yahoo

How the 'House of Guinness' cast mastered an Irish accent

Yahoo News UK spoke with cast members of the Netflix series "House of Guinness" about how they mastered an Irish accent for their roles. Um, James, I want to start with you because you had to kind of ...
Penn Live

Pa. city accent among ‘most trustworthy,’ report finds

For some reason, certain things about a person just convey trustworthiness. Accents are one such thing. Like, apparently, this one accent hailing from Pennsylvania. In a study entitled “Who To Trust: ...
New York Post

New York accents are hated by a majority of Americans — and a shocking number of New Yorkers, too: survey

New York’s distinct accent — the one that brought us Joe Pesci’s defensive “Funny how?” in “Goodfellas” and Fran Drescher’s thick “Oh, Mr. Sheffield” from the sitcom “The Nanny” — is rubbing a lot of ...
The Conversation

Are Scottish accents really more aggressive? A linguist explains

Amanda Cole is affiliated with The Accentism Project which she runs along with Dr Rob Drummond to raise awareness and challenge accentism. Can your accent make you sound aggressive? Exeter City ...
ZDNet

This new AI tool changes a speaker's accent to American English in real-time - hear for yourself

The company is initially rolling out support for altering 17 Indian dialects into US English but plans to expand in the future with Filipino and more. The tool is compatible with Zoom, Microsoft Teams ...
The Verge

This company is using AI to give people American-sounding accents

Krisp’s app is supposed to change a speaker’s voice in real time, starting with Indian English accents. Krisp’s app is supposed to change a speaker’s voice in real time, starting with Indian English ...
Cosmopolitan

Parker Posey Says North Carolinians Love Her ‘White Lotus’ Southern Accent

There are two types of White Lotus fans right now: Those that are obsessed with Parker Posey’s Southern accent, and those that hate it. To play the lorazepam-dependent southern matriarch, Victoria ...
TechSpot

Real-time AI voice technology alters accents in Indian call centers for better clarity

Teleperformance SE, the world's largest call center operator, is implementing an artificial intelligence system designed to soften the accents of English-speaking Indian workers in real-time. The ...
Futurism

World’s Largest Call Center Deploys AI to “Neutralize the Accent” of Indian Employees

Fresh off the heels of the AI-powered accent adjustments in the Oscar-nominated 2024 film “The Brutalist,” the French company that owns the largest call center in the world has announced that it’s ...