In your opinion, which of these five speakers has the most neutral sounding accent? You can hear the recordings by clicking here. Now, I know that there is no such thing as a completely "neutral" accent, but I just wanted to know if people perceive the same accent as sounding the most neutral compared to other accents.

I've seen this on countless message boards. Why? Who realy cares?

As long as we can all understand each other, who gives a shit?

i vote option 6... i couldn't be arsed to listen

i vote stupid thing posted by noob that i can't be bothered to read because i don't care. what the fuck is neutral anyhoo?

I'm not going to bother to listen. But to me, the answer would be the mid-western accent.. which is no accent at all.

I don't feel like listening. I have to listen to myself, and thats enough! meh meh.

no way, midwesterners all sound like bobby's mom from "bobby's world" to me.

i totally think that mid-easterners sound the least accented.

You're thinking of northerners.

Midwesterners are the most neutral voices, thats why everyone gets newscasters from the midwest.

yeah, i guess. i dunno, my aunts all live in colorado and grew up in kansas and they all sound like that to me.

I didnt listen to them but i picked number one

No was it six, I can't remember

Where are the answers?

Yep. I'm forced to agree. Everyone I've ever talked to that's from Kansas (*cough*) has zippo accent, which to me.. sounds fucking WEIRD.

you know, after this thread i'm inclined to post a "what kind of accent do you have" thread. seriously, i hear most of you in my voice (save the few that i've actually talked to). I'm wondering if i should be mentally hearing you with southern accents and whatnot.

New England accents are usually pretty close, depending on what region. If you are speaking with a Boston accent, that's one thing but I think that the people from my area are very neutral sounding.

What do YOU think? I twang like a mofo.

dude. that's it. i'm totally going to call you.

wait, i don't remember your number scratch that.

It wouldn't do you any good if you did remember. It's changed a lot. But I have the most awesome voice in the whole world. Ask anyone.

i dunno, mine rocks pretty hard....could yours posisbly be cooler than mine?

I think, at best, we'll tie.


But don't be disappointed if I stomp your ass.