[Wikipedia-l] Re: Conference report from South Africa

[Timwi]

Timwi wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how large and how representative a sample of listeners you
> have already surveyed, but I highly doubt this is a real problem. The
> recordings are obviously supposed to be spoken slowly and clearly.

I guess I shouldn't have said this, because now everyone thinks that 
arguing that accents can be mutually unintelligible, is an argument 
against natural recordings and for text-to-speech synthesis.