Australian English
8 People Test Their Accents on Siri, Echo, and Google Home
Play videoThis 2017 video from the WIRED Youtube channel tests the abilities of 3 different home assistance tools to recognize a variety of L1 and L2 English speaker's accents. The Romero et al. paper on speech recognition technologies reminded me of this video.
Bluey Giving Kids Non-native accents
Play videoPBS’s Otherwords explores TV’s effect on language. They specifically focus on the phenomena with children in the US gaining Australian accents from the show Bluey.
Code-switching
The speaker in the skit code-switches when speaking to her friend, the wait staff, and her mom over the phone, changing not just the words but also the social conventions of interaction between the three interlocutors.
what americans sound like to aussies
a pair of Australians create comical sentences to explain what Americans sound like to them.
The 3 Australian Accents: General, Cultivated & Broad
Play videoVideo that describes three major types of Australian English. It briefly mentions social attributes associated to these dialects and provides several audios from real speakers of these variants.
Australian English: History of vowel shift
Link to an animated vowel plot of Australian English (by a University in Sydney, Australia). On this webpage, there are also audio files of broad, general, and cultivated types of thisveriety.
"American" Story Time
A short video of an Australian mimicking what he thinks Americans sound like. This relates to our discussion about the "standard American accent" and how everyone has an accent to someone from another country. I also was trying to pin down where the accent in this video sounded like it might be from, and I kind of heard a mix of California and Northern midwest? It was interesting to consider.
H2O Aussie Accents
An article by an Australian person who is annoyed by the H2O trend on TikTok. This trend mocked not only the fantastical premise of the show, but also the accents of the actors. Particularly, the trend focused on people with American accents mocking the intrusive r in Australian accents (i.e. Emma -> Emmer, No -> Naur). [Published on 01-29-2019]
My Life is Murder Cat Interview
Play videoAustralian newscaster interviews people involved in making the Australian TV show "My Life is Murder" about the cat they work with on set.
Australian English
Play videoLooking at the different Australian accent varieties. Also shows some popular language myths about why the Australian accent sounds the way it does, and shows a bunch of people pronouncing the same line.
Philippine English vs. Australian English
Play video"Philippine English vs. Australian English" is a funny YouTube video by a Filipino husband and his Australian wife illustrating the differences between the two different dialects of English. By comparing different words and terms between the two dialects, the differences are sometimes profound, incomprehensible, and often very funny!
G'day mate: 'Lazy' Australian accent caused by "alcoholic slur' of heavy-drinking early settlers
A newspaper article reporting on an opinion piece written by a communications professor at Melbourne's Victoria University suggesting that the Australian accent resulted from the slurring of speech of early (drunk) settlers. [Published on 10-27-2015]
Australian Youth Representative 2013
Play videoAn example of a young speaker of Australian English that might be considered "general," (on a continuum from broad - general - cultivated)
Australian Zoo Tour with Steve Irwin
Play videoSteve Irwin's Australian English is considered "broad."
Why do rappers have fake accents?
An interview with David Crystal on the speaking and rapping of Iggy Azalea, a white Australian woman who adopts AAE features in her hip hop style.
Commercial: Kiwi and Aussie kids
Play videoA 2008 Mitre 10 commercial with two Kiwi kids (one Maori, one Pakeha) and one Aussie kid talking about home improvement.