AlleyWatch sat down with BoldVoice Cofounder and CEO Anada Lakra to learn more about the business, its future plans, recent $21M Series A round led by Matrix that brings total funding to $27.1M, and ...

In addition to the Royals, love for milky tea, and words that no foreigner will ever be able to pronounce on the first try, ...

1 School of English, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom 2 Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands This study investigates how ...

Mastering English can be tough for many learners. And choosing the right accent can add an extra challenge. But which English accent is easiest to learn: British or American? The answer is not as ...

Rosamund Pike is no stranger to playing characters who could be described as anti-heroes, from Amy Dunne in Gone Girl to Marla Grayson in I Care A Lot. And now, she's taking on a proper out-and-out ...

It is a familiar frustration. You ask Siri to “set an alarm for half past six," and instead of confirming, she replies, “Sorry, I didn’t catch that." Or you ...

People in eastern New England have been dropping their R's for centuries, but that's starting to change – even as subtle regional differences remain. Rhode Island accents became a source of stigma ...

American accents come from varied origins, mixing geographic, cultural and migration patterns. The Michigan accent encompasses the local speech habits of Michiganders. It is part of the Inland North ...

It was a week after Kim Hall’s surgery when her sister first noticed something different about her voice. “My mom and my sister came to visit me, and my sister said to my mom, ‘oh, she sounds very ...

“Accent by itself is a shallow measure of language proficiency, the linguistic equivalent of judging people by their looks.