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    Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED

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    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2017–2019

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    16:41 · 16M views · Nov 16, 2016

    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.

    HN finds Erik Singer's accent breakdowns informative and entertaining, and links them in discussions of accents and speech.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @cafSep 2019· in “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

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    2. @undershirtApr 2017· in “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

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    3. @m0ntyMay 2017· in “‘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

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