Accent is one of the most fascinating aspects of speech acoustics. An accent is a distinctive characteristic manner of pronunciation, usually associated with a community of people with a common regional or social/cultural background. Accents are dynamic processes that evolve over time influenced by large immigrations and social and cultural trends. The webpage investigates the distribution of the linguistic structure and acoustic correlates of three major accents of the English language namely  British, Australian and American accents. An accent profile is proposed to describe the statistics of the acoustic correlates of each accent and its distinct phonetic transcription. Differences of Formant spaces  across accents are also explored and evaluated by synthesis.

Keywords: Accent profile, Formant, Pitch, Phonetic

Seminar at UCL : Analysis, Modelling and Synthesis of British, Australian and American Accents