The Birmingham accent has been ranked the fifth most annoying in the country - with four other dialects ranked higher. Brummie has been a source of unnecessary teasing for decades, with the accent ...

12 locations in Birmingham where visitors can immerse themselves in the authentic Brummie accent. A proper Brummie accent is known for its many qualities, chief among them being its sing-song melody ...

West Midlands Police trialled a voice assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to deal with rising volumes of non-emergency calls. Sensitive technical details of the plan were ...

The Brummie accent is "worse than staying silent" according to a fairly patronising 2015 study. And yet there are now reports of New Yorkers putting on the Brummie twang on the back of the success of ...

The Brummie lilt has had a hard time over the years - but times may be changing. Because a new academic study of regional accents only ranks Brummie mid-table in a focus on the national's most ...

When a funeral planning business recently decided to open its new contact centre in Newport, South Wales, it said it was doing so because Welsh accents sounded more empathetic and consoling – beating ...

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Birmingham Council's new automated phone system reportedly struggles to understand a Brummie accent. Costing £11 million to implement, the system uses speech recognition technology. However, local ...