Why Do News Anchors Sound Alike? - Mental Floss
Apr 24, 2020 · One of the biggest reasons is to keep their employment opportunities open. Local anchors who deliver the nightly news for affiliate stations are often vagabonds, taking jobs across the country,...
How American Broadcasters All Came to Sound the Same - Business Insider
Jan 16, 2023 · Experts told Insider the stereotypical broadcast voice, identified by crisp enunciation and a distinct lack of regional accent, is a holdover from newscasts of the 1970s …
Why Do News Anchors All Talk the Same?
Oct 1, 2011 · Whether you're watching CBS News, CNN or even the satirical Onion News Network, news anchors always sound pretty much the same. With that exaggerated lilt, those vocal cliffhangers and...
The pervasive problem of 'linguistic racism' - BBC
Jun 3, 2021 · What happens when accent discrimination creeps in to our conscious and unconscious – and what do we do about our biases? Last summer, Triangle Investigations, a New York-based HR consultancy,...
Why Do Newscasters All Talk the Same? - Washington City Paper
Mar 18, 2016 · Today, news-speak corresponds to the accent called General American, and reflects the way many people around the country actually talk. But 75-plus years ago the lingua franca of broadcast...
The way Americans speak is changing and some accents may be dying - CNN
May 3, 2022 · The significance of evolving accents is actually much bigger than merely sounding different than we used to in the past. It’s about how we’ve changed as Americans.
Where Do Accents Come From? Linguist Explains - Northeastern Global News
Nov 30, 2023 · How do accents develop and disappear? Why don't you have your parents' accent? Linguist Adam Cooper breaks it all down.
AI Guesses Your Accent | Hacker News
3 days ago · Then I did my best Russian accent and on the first time it gave me Hindi/Urdu at 80+%. I tried it a second time rolling my r's a bit more and it settled on Russian at 70%. I think it's very sensitive to specific tells and I suspect the dataset for Russian accents may not account for all the variations in regional pronunciation and dialects.
That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From …
Jun 8, 2015 · In Woody Allen’s “Radio Days”, Mia Farrow has an impossibly thick Brooklyn accent until she takes voice lessons and becomes a successful radio purveyor of celebrity gossip.
Language Log » Broadcasters' accents
Jan 14, 2023 · The accents of news announcers across the U.S. are much less local — in region or ethnicity or class — than those of their listeners. Like Ellen Fleming, most broadcasters have learned to speak the broadcast standard, at least in their work context.