accent sherlock · how it works

What Accent Sherlock can hear

Nine regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania. When the accent is distinct enough it goes one step further and names a country, say Canada, India, Iran, Vietnam, Turkey or Brazil.

North America Latin America Europe Middle East &North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa South Asia East Asia Southeast Asia Oceania
The nine regions on the map. Inside each one, the model often narrows the guess to a country.

You don't have to be a native speaker. Most people who try it aren't. Your accent is really a record of the language you grew up with and the place you learned your English, and that is what the model listens for.

It is a guess, and we say so. The result always comes with a confidence level, and the rarer an accent is in the recordings it learned from, the more often it will miss. When it does, tap “Not quite” and tell it where you're from. That is how it gets better.

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