Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN finds Erik Singer's accent breakdowns informative and entertaining, and links them in discussions of accents and speech.
What it is
Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes how accurate the accents are of 32 well-known actors, including Brad Pitt and Will Smith, in WIRED's breakdown.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2017 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Recommends caf · 2019-09 · on “Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (2017)”
Technique Critique - Erik Singer's videos on accent work in particular fall right into the 'informative and entertaining' basket for me, anyway. [this video]
Cites undershirt · 2017-04 · on “Pink Trombone: Speech Synthesis Simulation in JavaScript”
Would this be a good way to learn a language? Seems like a good way to show how to pronounce consonants/vowels that we may have trouble discerning from similar sounds. for example, I would love to be able to refer to this when watching Erik Singer describe accents: [this video]
Cites m0nty · 2017-05 · on “‘The Wire’ – Game Day”
Idris Elba and Dominic West both caught me by surprise, given that I'm English and I was convinced they were both American. Then I heard Idris in another production talking proper London ... Discussion of his accent here from a dialect coach, "This is amazing": [this video]