Reminds me of the time my neighbours must have wondered if I was having some kind of a breakdown when trying out really basic MacOS voice recognition back in the early 2000s. There was a keyboard shortcut and you could say something like "phone number for firstname lastname" and it would theoretically show you that phone number. Thing is it didn't seem to like a British accent, so I spent a good hour trying out different accents, rotating through various US accents, Australian, South African, Canadian and so on. It seemed to respond best to some kind of a melange of Californian / Australian.

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PyWoody 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Scottish Elevator - Voice Recognition - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8

	▲	frereubu 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not too far off what happened, although thankfully I wasn't actually trying to do anything other than test it. Going to take the opportunity afforded by Scottish TV comedy here, and make a very tenuous link to intercultural exchange so I can post my favourite Rab C Nesbitt scene, hands across the sea indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxPH_QH940
	▲	ntcho 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Thanks for this gem, had a good laugh

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thebruce87m 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Interesting - I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone from the UK refer to talking in a “British accent” before since we are normally aware of the wild regional variations.

	▲	frereubu 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fair point! I think it's a tic from being English and having lived in Scotland for quite a while so I autocorrect "English" to "British", but I've over-corrected here. (Also perhaps something to do with "British English").