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I did not see an British accent example.

Generally it appears the TTS systems all do US accents and the British accent tends to sound like Frasier - an American faking an British accent.



We have lots of great British voices in our voice library! Or if you want to hear an american trying to do a british accent add "[British accent]" at the start of the generation


It would be good if your demos made it more obvious. There's a vast arrays of AI developments wanting me to check them out - you have seconds to get my attention.


I kept an English prompt, selected a French voice, and was delighted to hear an British English woman. :shrug:


If you'd like it to sound like a french person speaking french this voice works great: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?voiceId=xTZlmU8dKXdy...

Or if you want a french person speaking english with a french accent use that voice with "[French accent]" before it


> Generally it appears the TTS systems all do US accents and the British accent tends to sound like Frasier - an American faking an British accent.

Frasier Crane's accent is an American actor portraying an American character who (with variable intensity depending on situation) is affecting, over the character's own natural accent, either a constructed American accent (the Transatlantic) or a natural American accent (Boston Brahmin), there is some dispute about which or whether its a blend, both of which share some features (in the former case, by deliberate construction) with British pronunciation.


FYI, Frasier's not "faking a British accent". It's a Boston Brahmin/transatlantic accent.


ElevenLabs v2's accented voices are still much stronger than any of its competition. And I've tried it with Arabic, French, Hindi and English.


Can it do a proper Singaporean or Hongkongese accent?


Haven't tried it, but it does an Arabic-accented English somewhat okayishly.




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