The southern drawl gets deconstructed
Understanding vowel sound diversity could improve Siri
SWEET AS PAH Delving into the vowel pronunciations of Southerners, who, for example, turn pie into “pah,” reveals surprising linguistic complexity that could help make better speech recognition software.
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