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Not very good guesses. It had me read twice and I used a high quality mic. It guessed Spanish as my native language, but picked up a bit of Chinese and a bit of English. I am a native born American whose only language is English and a life long Midwesterner. I have a midwestern accent and occasionally some Canadian influences sneaks in (or so people have told me), but Spanish/Chinese? Completely wrong.


I had the same thing happen! 83% English, 3% Spanish, 2% Chinese.

I am super midwestern, lived here all my life. I didn't realize I was saying "ope" until I saw a meme about it.


As they explain, it is mostly meant for non-native speakers, so your "bad" experience is expected.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42393649

As a non-native speaker, it is very very accurate even for Hungarian, which is quite a tiny language. I have sent it to several friends and it "caught" them all.


Very interesting, I also got Spanish, Chinese, and english. Lifelong midwesterner here as well. Maybe there's something to the midwest.




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