Does anybody else find it weird that whenever you have a voice over, be it satnav, Bluetooth speakers, promotional videos (of European companies!), etc. they almost always have American accents? Even before the whole buy European movement took off I found this weird, especially since British or Irish accents are way nicer to listen to in my opinion.
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It annoys me most when it’s something that doesn’t need a voice in the first place.
A few beeps would have done the job perfectly, but no, my bluetooth headphones insist on using the most awful sounding loud, nasally whingeing American harpy voice to say:
“Heeadphoenes conneecteed”
“Heeadphoenes disconeeected”
“powerrrrrrrrrrr ahfff”My favourite was an old Bluetooth speaker I had 10 years ago, where the voice started up saying “Bluetooth mode has been on”. Like, what‽
And then there is Moondrop Space Travel with an anime girl whispering to your ears.
My friend has a Bluetooth connector for his car and it has a girl’s voice announce when Bluetooth is connected with an insanely strong Chinese accent and it’s completely adorable.
Interesting, because as an American, I always switch my voice assistant to a British English opinion when possible because I find a lot of the American one to often have a Southern US dialect to them which I despise the sound of.
Aren’t some Southern US accents similar to British? Honest question, not trolling. My english is not good enough to tell but I was pointed to Jerry Hall (who’s from Texas) as an example
Not at all, for southern US think country music ala Garth Brooks, although most of the singers fake their accent. There are some New England dialects that have some similarities to UK English.
There is an accent from the American south that is quite often mistaken for British or Irish: The Ocracoke Hoi Toiders.
Ocracoke is a small island at the southern end of the Outer Banks or North Carolina, it was isolated so long that they maintain a pretty unique accent that outright doesn’t sound North American.
One of the reasons I like my Sennheiser bluetooth headphones is the power on/off/recharge headset is a chirpy hampshire/oxofrdshire accent.
And the Sonys even more, as they just go “budoom” when you power them up.
Those simple audio cues are so much better than the overly verbose announcements lol! Reminds me of how I switched to the soundleaf app for my audiobooks partly because it has minimal audio notifications that don’t interrupt my listening experiance.
Se Bluetoos device has been connected successfully
I have the opposite “problem” but I don’t care. Ask yourself what this is rooted in that this bothers you. Are American voices impure or something?
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