Accent Test Help & FAQ

Record a phrase, get a ranked result across sixteen accents of world English, and use the guide and the daily challenge to move it. Everything is processed on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I record a sample that gives a fair result?

Somewhere quiet, phone at a normal distance, and read the phrase at your ordinary speaking pace. The two things that skew a result most are background noise and consciously performing - if you are trying to sound like something, that is what gets measured.

Why does it show percentages instead of just naming my accent?

Because almost nobody is a single accent. A ranked breakdown across all sixteen tells you far more than one label: the second and third place are usually where the interesting history is - a parent, a city you lived in, a school.

It says I am 40% American and I have never left Ireland. Is it broken?

Probably not. The model scores acoustic similarity, not biography. Some features - a rhotic R, particular vowel positions - are shared across accents that have no connection to each other. Read the guide entry for the accent it flagged and you will usually see which feature triggered it.

Which sounds actually distinguish the accents?

The guide covers them with word-level examples: whether the R after a vowel is pronounced, whether a T between vowels becomes a flap, how broad or long the vowels are, and whether the rhythm is stress-timed or syllable-timed. Those four account for most of what people hear.

How do I use the You vs Native comparison?

Play them back to back on the same phrase rather than reading the description of the difference. Pick one feature to work on at a time - the R, or one vowel - because trying to change everything at once produces an accent that belongs to nobody.

Does the training actually move the score?

The score climbs as the acoustic match improves, and Beat Your Score lets you retake an old phrase to compare against your own past attempt rather than an abstract target. Progress on a specific phrase is easier to see than progress in general.

What is the Accent Passport?

A collection: get detected as each of the sixteen at least once. It is a game rather than a skills test, and it is a surprisingly effective way to learn what each accent is actually made of.

Can I share or keep the result?

Yes - export the full sixteen-accent report as an image or a PDF, or share a clean result card in one tap.

Is my voice sent anywhere?

No. Recordings are processed on the device and are never uploaded, stored online or shared, and nothing is used to train anything. You can switch the network off entirely and it still works.

What do I need to run it?

iPhone on iOS 16, iPad on iPadOS 16, or a Mac on macOS 13, and later versions of each.

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How-to guides

How to take a first test that means something

The first result is the baseline everything else is compared against, so it is worth doing properly.

  1. Find a quiet room and turn off anything with a fan or a hum.
  2. Hold the device where you would normally hold it for a call.
  3. Read the phrase the way you would say it to a friend, not the way you would say it to a microphone.
  4. Look at the whole ranked list rather than the top line.
  5. Save or export the result so you have something to compare with later.

Do not repeat the phrase five times and keep the flattering one. The point of a baseline is that it is honest.

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How to work towards a specific accent

Chasing the overall percentage is the slow route. Chasing one feature at a time is the fast one.

  1. Open the Accent Guide for the accent you want and read which features define it.
  2. Pick one - the rhotic R is usually the highest-leverage single change.
  3. Listen to the native recording for a phrase containing it, then record yourself on the same phrase.
  4. Compare the two directly and repeat until the difference on that one feature is gone.
  5. Only then move to the next feature, and use Beat Your Score to check the old phrase still holds.

Accents live in vowels more than in consonants. Consonants are easier to change and account for less of what a listener actually notices.

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How to keep a daily habit that survives past week two

The mechanism matters more than the intention here.

  1. Turn on the Daily Challenge and put the widget on the home screen where you will see it.
  2. Do it once a day at the same moment - the streak is doing the work, not motivation.
  3. Use Guess the Accent on days when you do not want to record anything; listening still trains the ear.
  4. Check the training chart weekly rather than daily, because day-to-day variation is mostly noise.
  5. Treat the Accent Passport as the long game.

A minute a day beats an hour on Sunday for this specifically, because what you are training is perception before production.

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How to run it as a group game

This is what most people actually do with it, and it works better with a little structure.

  1. Agree on one phrase so everyone is measured on the same material.
  2. Take turns in the same room, same distance from the device.
  3. Compare the full breakdowns rather than the headline, which is where the arguments get interesting.
  4. Switch to Guess the Accent and play a round with native recordings.
  5. Export the cards if anyone wants to keep the evidence.

Family members usually score closer to each other than to anyone else, which is the result that surprises people most.

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