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Originally Posted by HarryT
A friend of mine has the software and tells me that it works pretty well for him. I wonder if it perhaps works a little better for British speakers than for American? I've noticed that some American accents, for example, make the words "merry", "marry", and "Mary" essentially sound the same, whereas in British English they have three distinct and different vowel sounds. Having well-defined vowel sounds could well improve the accuracy of recognition.
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I didn't know there was a difference in pronunciation. I've watched my share of British TV, and I've never picked up the difference. I'm not saying that it isn't there, it just may be subtle enough so that I didn't notice the difference even when I heard it. In the standard accent you hear on American TV, there doesn't seem to be a difference.