Help wanted in identifying an accent

I'm looking at the relatively new degree mill called Andersen University -- mail drop in Sacramento, California and website registered to a man in southern California, with a model similar (or identical) to the notorious "University Degree Program" in Romania and Israel.

I am trying to place the accent of the woman whose voice is on the recorded message you get when you call their toll-free number (from the US): 1-866-978-4486

It's a short message, which makes this harder. My guess is not British or Australian or South African, but can't be sure.

Any other guesses or opinions welcome. Thanks.

 

It sounded to me like a British accent, but one earned not in GB, but in another country (perhaps a Commonwealth country). Middle Eastern, perhaps?

 

I know a girl from Namibia who's accent is quite similar. She attended a British school there.
Jack
(Where is Prof. Henry Higgins when you need him?)

 

My 2 cents

Definitely not English or Aussie

To me, it sounds like a European with good UK English as a second language.

 

London, East Side, Ismaeli, 5'5" tall, after having read Pygmalion just that very morning, with just a hint of oregano....

(Hey, it worked for Dr. Dolittle....)

 

My guess is an Indian British accent.

 

It could have been my Chinese secretary in Singapore, or a well educated Hong Kong Chinese.

 

I've listened to it three times, and I'm kinda' good at this sort of thing just generally (I can usually guess, accurately, where in the US someone's originally from after listening to them talk for only a few seconds; and I nearly always guess right when a TV or radio commercial comes on that's narrated by someone famous and someone says "name that celebrity voice"), and I'd say it's most definitely what edowave said.

Yes, I can hear what you're hearing, and it is very close to that, isn't it. But, really... I think edowave's got it.

Or so it is my opnion.

 

Aw. C'mon. I said Ismaeli first!

http://www.iis.ac.uk/ismailis/ismailis_l2.htm

And on second thought, 5'6". And wears glasses, not contacts.

 

BTW -- do we get a cookbook if we get it right? Roast pygmalion with cloves. Mmmmm yummmmy, eh govnah?

 

British Columbia.

Actually, I go along with endowave--Indian British accent.

 

I would say the same as above it is denfinately an english inspired accent. I'm just not sure if it is Indian,sinaporean or other exotic accent mixed in.

 

British Indian???? Never. Not even close.

English is not her first language but she speaks it well and confidently. This and the intonation at the end of her words say of Scandanavian (Danish?) origin to me. The name of the mill fits this.

The other options which can sound similar are Dutch and white South African, again people who speak English like a first language when it isn't. Where is JLV?

All the best,

Dave C.

P.S. John, I called from England so you can thank my employer!!...

 

I don't know...

On one hand she has the intonation of a native germanic language speaker but when she says moment it comes out pure London....

 

I would say Indian. Reasonably well educated. London or home counties, not Midlands or the North. The rhythm and intonation seem wrong for Afro-Caribbean, but with such a short message, it's hard to say. Not, I think, HK or Singapore, and I can't agree with Dave C. about a European origin.

jon

 

Lived in Germany 12 years...

My initial reaction was it was a German. The short biting way she spoke and the guttural intonation was very German. However, like I said the last but deterred me. I work with many Indians and it doesn't sound anything like them. They have a flow to their languages that follows over to their English. That wasn't there with this lady. 10-1 she is speaking in some manner to try to disquise her voice.....

 

Dave C

That would be my guess also.

 

Dr. Bear,
1. Very possibly English, not east end of London 8)
2. Baltic region trying to be British
3. India, trying out their very best accent....trying too hard, modifying the accent half way thru the statement