AI Text-to-Speech models have accents too

While playing around with the Web Speech API I discovered something interesting: if you let the Dutch voice speak English text, it sounds remarkably like the typical "Dungrish" accent (Dutch person speaking English).

I didn't expect this. Obviously the AI was not trained on reproducing foreign accents, but it still does!

Very interesting to see what happens if you let the voice speak a language it was not trained on

You can play around with it here if your browser supports it, or try the examples below:



Or try these ready made examples:

Once you're done playing around, discuss this on HN



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  1. This unexpected discovery about Dutch AI Voice Generator voices mimicking the natural 'Dungrish' accent when speaking English highlights how AI speech synthesis unintentionally captures human linguistic patterns, offering fascinating insights into cross-language phonetic adaptation.

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