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The southern drawl gets deconstructed
« on: July 05, 2017, 08:31:06 am »
The southern drawl gets deconstructed
Understanding vowel sound diversity could improve Siri
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Rachel Ehrenberg
3:14pm, June 30, 2017
 

BOSTON — Some aspects of speech are as Southern as pecan pie. Consider the vowel shift that makes the word pie sound more like “pah.” While that pronunciation is found from Florida to Texas, a new study reveals a surprising diversity in Southern vowel pronunciation that’s linked to a speaker’s age, social class, gender, race and geography.

The research, presented June 29 at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, could help software developers create better speech recognition tools for smartphones and other devices.

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Re: The southern drawl gets deconstructed
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2017, 09:06:27 am »
It's nice to see Southern accents being studied for purposes of improving voice-recognition, rather than just made fun of or used to presuppose someone is ignorant.
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Re: The southern drawl gets deconstructed
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2017, 09:09:08 am »
Relative speaking is all a point of one's reference.  IMO people from Boston sound strange.
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Re: The southern drawl gets deconstructed
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2017, 09:40:17 am »
Quote from: catfish1957 on July 05, 2017, 09:09:08 am
Relative speaking is all a point of one's reference.  IMO people from Boston sound strange.

Totally agree!
"Pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd."
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Re: The southern drawl gets deconstructed
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2017, 11:14:28 am »
I am a proud southerner.  I once worked for a company (home office in Connecticut) that sent myself and others to classes to rid us of our regional speech characteristics.  You had to go to be eligible for promotions.  I thought those folks from Connecticut should have been likewise required to attend class to rid them of their regional speech characteristics.  Some of them were near impossible to understand, especially on the phone.
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Re: The southern drawl gets deconstructed
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2017, 11:25:14 am »
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Some aspects of speech are as Southern as pecan pie. Consider the vowel shift that makes the word pie sound more like “pah.”

Which if you're from Boston, like me, always sounds quaint.

Of course, around here, we have our own regional pronunciation:

Pie? We call it a "taht".  As in: "Ay, Bawbby - gimme a slice uh that friggin' tahhht, will yuh?
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