Best guess
The American Midland
85%sure
Your voice serves as the acoustic baseline that the rest of the country gets measured against.
The sample
A real report, receipts included
No mockups. This is an actual verdict from the analyzer — the founder volunteered his own vowels. It shows the shape of the experience: the free verdict, plus the optional full report's accent blend and detailed evidence.
The verdict, in one breath
You say 'otter' like it has a D in it.
blend
n.your accent, by the percent. Shaken, not stirred.
80%20%
American Midland
80%
A textbook interior cadence with strong Rs and perfectly merged vowels.
Western US
20%
A subtle westward drift in how you front the vowel in 'news'.
Where your vowels have been
re·ceipt
n.Exhibit A: the word that snitched first.
Exhibit A
otter
Your T went soft and your vowel flattened, sounding just like 'odder'
The full file
We have notes.
Stats, suspects, twins, the trap sentence — and the nerd layer. Jump around; it’s your file.
stats
n. pl.your voice, by the numbers. Don't take it personally.
Accent strength
15
Anchor-desk ready
Accent vintage
Early 2010s
Modern Millennial
Your fronted 'news' combined with a complete cot-caught merger locks you into a contemporary American era.
Reading pace
172wpm
Auctioneer with somewhere to be
73 words in 0:25
Melody
40
Even-keeled
You speak with a steady, standard American cadence that avoids any sudden pitch spikes.
Register
50
Business casual, verbally
You sound articulate and thoughtful without ever veering into stiff formality.
Rhythm
60
Natural swing
Your beats land right on time, giving your thoughts on space geopolitics a highly readable, fluid pace.
Vowel mileage
50
Perfect middle gear
Your vowels in words like 'right' have just enough glide to be clear without going on a scenic Southern detour.
first im·pres·sion
n.how you land on a stranger who can't see you.
In one word
Clear
☎ phone testyou'd pass unremarked
You would slide through a customer service call without anyone ever asking where you are calling from.
per·cen·tile
n.you vs. every voice this thing has ever heard.
Accent strength
P6
A thicker accent than 6% of everyone we've heard.
Melody
P43
More musical than 43% of everyone we've heard.
Rhythm
P80
More swing than 80% of everyone we've heard.
Vowel mileage
P92
Better-traveled vowels than 92% of everyone we've heard.
Reading pace
P87
Faster than 87% of everyone we've heard.
more re·ceipts
n. pl.Exhibits B through whatever. They all talked.
caught
You dropped the rounded vowel entirely, making it sound identical to 'cot'
news
You dropped the 'y' sound completely, pronouncing it 'nooz'
um · filler census
free-talk clip
like ×2 you know ×1 um ×1
You kept the verbal speedbumps to a minimum, though 'like' still managed to slip in twice.
mark·up
n.the passage you read. Every highlighted word testified against you.
The otter at the city aquarium has caught the attention of the entire staff. Every quarter past three it steals a bottle of water, thinks hard about it, then hurls the thing straight at the glass. "Better than the evening news," our keeper mutters, jotting little notes. Honestly, I've met calmer actors. The creature clearly thinks it ought to be paid, and after thirty tricks a day, I'm starting to think it's right.
line·up
n.places we suspected, questioned, and let go.
Great Lakes / Inland North
Your 'staff' stayed completely flat instead of stretching into 'stee-aff'
Upper Midwest
You didn't flatten the 'o' in 'notes' into a single, long 'nohts' sound
California
Your 'o' in 'geopolitics' stayed firmly in the back of your mouth
tell
n.the habit that gives you away. Every. Single. Time.
Using full, gliding vowels in 'notes' and 'space'
Lose it, and you could pass for a native Minnesotan.
twins
n. pl.famous voices in your key. You're welcome.
John Green
You both share that clear, unhurried Indiana cadence and merged 'cot-caught' vowels
Paul Rudd
You both have that friendly, regionally elusive Midland delivery that sounds like nowhere and everywhere
Scott Simon
You share that clean, measured public-radio clarity when reading a script
code-switch
v.reading you vs. rambling you. One of them is putting it on.
20
Performance gap
Subtle shift
You kept the same exact accent throughout, but you traded your measured reading pace for some casual 'likes' and 'you knows' in free speech.
field notes
n. pl.what we heard, in plain English. Nerd layer on request.
The T-to-D flip
Your middle Ts soften into Ds, turning 'otter' into 'odder' and 'bottle' into 'boddle'
For the linguistics nerds
Intervocalic alveolar flapping of /t/ to [ɾ]
The Cot-Caught merger
You use the exact same vowel for 'caught' and 'otter', making them rhyme perfectly
For the linguistics nerds
Complete merger of the low back vowels /ɑ/ and /ɔ/
Your heavy-duty Rs
You hold onto every single R like your life depends on it, even at the end of words like 'quarter'
For the linguistics nerds
Consistent post-vocalic rhoticity in all environments
1 more from the field notes
The low-gear vocal fry
You sink into a gravelly rattle at the tail end of your sentences, especially on words like 'glass'
For the linguistics nerds
Creaky voice / vocal fry register in phrase-final positions
al·so
adv.things we noticed and couldn't not mention.
- →Your vocal fry only comes out to play at the very end of your sentences, acting like a little acoustic exclamation point.
im·per·son·ate
v.how to fake you. If an actor got cast as you, this is their cheat sheet.
25
Fakeability — how hard you are to impersonate
The voice-acting witness protection program
01
Anchor the R
Pronounce every single R with absolute, unshakeable confidence, especially at the very end of words where other accents let them slip away.
02
Collapse the twin vowels
Drop your jaw and let the vowel in words like 'caught' and 'ought' slide into the exact same flat, open sound as 'otter'.
03
Soften the middle T
Let your tongue tap lazily against the roof of your mouth so T sounds in the middle of words turn into soft, quick D sounds.
04
Let the tail sizzle
As you reach the final word of a sentence, let your pitch drop and relax your vocal cords into a gravelly, low-frequency crackle.
The master key
Flatten your 'caught' into 'caht' and let the very last word of every sentence sink into a gravelly, low-pitched sizzle.
trap
n.a sentence engineered against you, personally. It looks innocent. It is not.
Read this out loud
“The keeper caught the otter stealing a bottle of water, then jotted some notes before it shattered the glass.”
What it's rigged to catch
caught — your twin vowels merge, making it sound identical to 'caht'
bottle — your soft-boiled T turns it into a quick, lazy 'boddle'
glass — resting at the very end of the sentence, it triggers your signature gravelly, phrase-ending sizzle
Read it out loud. See if you can keep your middle Ts crisp or if you slide right into that cozy, gravelly finish.
b-side
n.your voice, filed under other things it technically is.
As a drink
A classic cream soda in a cold glass bottle
It flows with a smooth, highly approachable sweetness before finishing with that distinct, bubbly, crackling sizzle at the bottom of the glass.
As weather
A crisp, clear mid-October afternoon
It has an unpretentious, bright clarity that feels entirely familiar, grounded by a cool, dry rustle of leaves at the end of every breeze.
As a car
A well-maintained mid-2000s sedan with a slightly loose muffler
It is incredibly reliable, hums along with a steady, unmarked rhythm, but lets out a warm, gravelly purr whenever you idle at a stoplight.
charm
n.the page of the report that likes you back. For the record.
There is a quiet, reassuring stability in your voice. It is the sound of an articulate, completely unpretentious narrator who doesn't need to put on airs to hold a room's attention.
Deploy at close range
news
By dropping the 'y' sound, you make 'nooz' sound wonderfully clean, direct, and completely free of any fussy, old-fashioned theater.
⚠ Do not read bedtime stories to people who need to stay awake; that warm, low-pitched sizzle at the end of your sentences is an accidental sedative.
share card
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