为什么人们会一直击败语音识别算法( 四 )_Whypeoplewillbeatmachinesinrecognisi

人们可以费力地向语音识别系统传授不同口音的差别，但口音变异也只是冰山一角。元音可能会因为年龄、性别、社会阶层、种族、醉酒程度、谈话速度、谈话对象以及我们是否处在嘈杂环境中等因素而发生变化。上面的列表会一直增加下去，永无止境。

The crux/crooks of the matter

Crux ，还是crooks

Consider that a recent study I was involved in showed that even moving house (or not) can affect one’s vowels. Specifically there is a correlation between how speakers of Northern English pronounce the vowel in words like crux and how many times they have moved in the last decade. People who have not moved at all are more likely to pronounce crux the same as crooks which is the traditional Northern English pronunciation. But those who have moved four times or more are more likely to have different vowels in the two words similarly in the south of England.

我最近参与的一项研究表明，搬家或者不搬家也能够影响到一个人的元音发音。具体而言，对于那些使用（英格兰）北部英语的人来说，他在过去十年中搬家的次数和他的元音发音情况（例如crux发音如何）存在相关性。那些从来没有搬过家的人念crux的时候听起来就像crooks一样。恩，非常典型的北方英语发音。但是对于那些搬过四次家甚至次数更多的人来说， crux和crooks中的元音发音是不同的；他们的发音更类似于南部英语。