Sorry, I Didn’t Catch Your Name

It’s surprisingly enthralling watching Amy Walker introduce herself twenty-one times.

The trick is she does it each time with a different accent – London, Dublin, Belfast, Scotland, Italy, Germany, Prague, Moscow, Paris, Sydney, Wellington, Australia, Texas, California, Seattle, Toronto, Brooklyn, Charleston…

I like Dublin and Charleston best.

This reminds me of the Speech Accent Archive from George Mason University, which currently has 866 samples of people from around the world reading the same sample of text.  (They even have a category for American Sign Language, though it’s empty.  I’m not sure how they think that’s gonna work.)

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