Crikey

Fair dinkum?

Dingo ate mah bahbee.

Don't come the raw prawn, mate.

Kiki Vidis?

"Sniping's a good job, mate!! Challenging work, out of doors. I guarantee you won't go hungry!!"

Etc

If only they could come up with a way to identify British children and ban them from playing online games. Worst. Children. Ever.

Seriously you think all the 8 year old gangster wannabes from the US are bad try dealing with those little blighters and you'll be HAPPY the next time a kid drops the N-bomb on you.

Pants full of macaroni!!: I have been told that Australians are the only people in the world without an accent.

Mind you, it was an Australian person who told me that.

A Romanian girl once told me I had a beautiful accent. I think people from other countries just don't know any better, I always thought Americans sounded kinda, meh.

Pants full of macaroni!!: I have been told that Australians are the only people in the world without an accent.

Mind you, it was an Australian person who told me that.

Supposedly Californians have an accent. It was described to me that we talk fast-ish with harder vowel sounds?

They say "Wheah's the cah?" We say "Wheah's the Cah?"

Most people mistake me for British. Except in Britain, then they can tell I'm foreign but not from where. I've also been mistaken for South African, although half of my family did move here from Rhodesia so I may have picked it up from them.

/never has anyone guessed accurately

They'll crack the code known as the Scots dialect.

That's bonza mate!

/approves

Is it for XBox only? Are they also making a tool for humans to help understand Bruce-speak?

Yvonne Strahovski Says "No"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xedDbZ7zH00


Scrubs Australian Accent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNkr76x3uQ&feature=related

You know who else was Australian, and who had a funny accent?


Adolf Hitler, that's who.

Still no cure for Glasgow

7wolf: Most people mistake me for British. Except in Britain, then they can tell I'm foreign but not from where. I've also been mistaken for South African, although half of my family did move here from Rhodesia so I may have picked it up from them.

/never has anyone guessed accurately

Apparently it IS challenging for everyone... Used to run a late night WoW guild. It had members from New Zealand, Australia, Britain and also one member from South Africa who lived in New Zealand. Whenever a new member was added from one of these areas, not even the other folks from those areas could pick out the accent correctly... The Australians seemed to get the most upset about it.

'Bout time. I was having trouble moloolagubbing my wadongachucka.

Looks like they might have something there. While not Australian I think it's close enough. pops

Our GPS is set to Aussie accent, so I'm getting a kick...

/Her name is Sheila.

Fair crack of the whip!

Still no help for the Welsh.

suburbanguy: Our GPS is set to Aussie accent, so I'm getting a kick...

/Her name is Sheila.

Is she single?

We bought our first car GPS in 2009. We set it to the male Australian voice, just because it's the sexiest of the lot of 'em. Garmin names this voice "Lee", so we started calling the GPS itself "Lee".

When we bought an updated model this year, we gave it the same voice, put it in the newer of our two cars, and christened it "New Lee" (say it fast). The original one was moved to the older car, and renamed "Original Lee".

In my work van, I have yet another unit, and have programmed it the same as the others. My name for it: "Professional Lee".

The closer you are to the english crown the more childish your english ends up sounding.

So when do we get one that can translate Newfoundland into English? Eh.

Me grandad met me grandmum in Australia. Well, when I say 'met' I mean 'raped'. Me da is so australian he's in prison.

theropod: We bought our first car GPS in 2009. We set it to the male Australian voice, just because it's the sexiest of the lot of 'em. Garmin names this voice "Lee", so we started calling the GPS itself "Lee".

When we bought an updated model this year, we gave it the same voice, put it in the newer of our two cars, and christened it "New Lee" (say it fast). The original one was moved to the older car, and renamed "Original Lee".

In my work van, I have yet another unit, and have programmed it the same as the others. My name for it: "Professional Lee".

I cringed while reading most of that post.

jmsvrsn: They'll crack the code known as the Scots dialect.

Eleven!

traylor: Is it for XBox only? Are they also making a tool for humans to help understand Bruce-speak?

The most recent iOS update had significant changes to it's understanding for dealing with Aus-English too.

Pants full of macaroni!!: I have been told that Australians are the only people in the world without an accent.

Mind you, it was an Australian person who told me that.

Are you sure that's what he said?

No=Naaahhuuuuurrrrr

Pretty much all voice recognition systems need a separate voice model for distinct accents. That includes American, British, Australian, and all the different language accents such as someone speaking English with a Spanish accent.

It just takes a lot of data and processing to create one, so they probably took care of the easy ones first and are releasing new ones as they create them.

7wolf: Most people mistake me for British. Except in Britain, then they can tell I'm foreign but not from where. I've also been mistaken for South African, although half of my family did move here from Rhodesia so I may have picked it up from them.

/never has anyone guessed accurately

People from Western Australia sound South African in the way they transpose vowels. Australia becomes 'Eostralieh', Frementle becomes 'Fremental', and come to bed sounds like 'cam to bid'.

But at least most of the ones I get to talk to don't have that annoying upward inflection at the end of sentences that make everything sound like a ^question? Like the voice ^{goes up at the end}? It's really an^noying?

Beluga Heights: suburbanguy: Our GPS is set to Aussie accent, so I'm getting a kick...

/Her name is Sheila.

Is she single?

Better ask her husband.

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They say "Wheah's the cah?" We say "Wheah's the Cah?"

Bret: Did she sound Australian? Australian accent?
Jemaine: Yes, yes.
Bret: What did it sound like?
Jemaine: Kind of like an evil version of our accent.

dittybopper: You know who else was Australian, and who had a funny accent?

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Adolf Hitler, that's who.

Troll somewhere else. Hitler is German.

Doesn't everyone just mute them and avoid them?

Guidette Frankentits: Pants full of macaroni!!: I have been told that Australians are the only people in the world without an accent.

Mind you, it was an Australian person who told me that.

Supposedly Californians have an accent. It was described to me that we talk fast-ish with harder vowel sounds?


That just sounds like someone from the south noticed your accent. We have about as neutral an accent out here as it gets.

Fair dinkum, mate.
/if you never have done so before, check out Kevin Bloody Wilson. Warning- your next of kin may have an awful time with the cleanup as you are likely to laugh so hard you'll crap yourself before dropping dead, but that won't be nearly as bad as the work the undertaker will have getting the grin off your face.