The Accent Kit 4+
The Big Gob Squad
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
iPhone Screenshots
Description
Three of the UKs leading accent coaches present The ACCENT Kit: an invaluable tool and resource for actors, and anyone wanting to learn an accent.
Edda Sharpe, Jan Haydn Rowles and Richard Ryder’s highly skilled yet invisible work, can be heard across the creative industries, from Game of Thrones to the Royal Shakespeare Company. They are on the call sheets for all the major international film and TV production companies and on the rehearsal schedules for leading theatre producers and directors. Simply, you couldn’t be in better hands.
The ACCENT Kit app is free to download and gives you access to a library of REAL AUTHENTIC ACCENT SPEAKERS validated by experts for authenticity and ‘usability’.
Build your very own accent library at the touch of a button.
Only buy accents that work for your profile and character.
Or use the app to record people reading The ACCENT Kit and build your own accent library for free!
Downloadable kits include recordings of authentic speakers demonstrating the five crucial elements needed to learn an accent, set out in a simple, easy to use structure;
• FREE SPEECH: a 1-3 minute story of personal interest in the speaker’s own words.
• FOUNDATIONS: the oral SETTING, the focal ZONE and the TONE of the accent.
• PRACTICE TEXT: the speaker reading a set text containing all the speech sounds and combinations you need.
• WORD LIST and SENTENCES: all the vowel shapes of the accent together with practice sentences recorded by the sample speaker.
• CONSONANTS and PRACTICE SENTENCES: six consonant sounds that can make or break your accent together demonstrated together with practice sentences recorded by the sample speaker.
Each element is user friendly, straight forward and easy to navigate.
Tap the question mark at any time for further guidance.
You can also;
• Record yourself practicing the accent.
• Store all your recordings in your own library of MY RECORDINGS and PURCHASED FILES.
The ACCENT STORE
Browse the shelves or search for an accent, read about the area and the speaker, and listen to a 5 second audio sample, all before you choose!
Only purchase the accent that is right for you and your character.
Each accent you purchase is yours to keep.
Samples are continuously being included from a spectrum of backgrounds and ages.
Can’t find the accent you need? Click REQUEST ACCENT and we add it as soon as we can.
Accents are added to the store on an ongoing basis…so keep checking the store for new ones!
What’s New
Version 1.12
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Fixed minor bugs with accents containing "/" character in store.
Ratings and Reviews
Lacking sufficient variety of accents
I really want to be able to recommend this app because it’s a great idea - but there are so few accents available in the store. Even those that you would expect to be there are missing. The other big problem is that nearly all the recordings are of younger speakers who often have very homogenised versions of their accent. Please give us more geographical variation and more older speakers!
Developer Response ,
Hi there. We appreciate your review. We work hard to collect as many samples as we can and this is an ongoing process. All the samples are personally sourced and recorded which obviously creates some frustrations in our attempts to build our library. Having said that we are very proud of having collected over 200 different contributions so far, many of which are available in the store, while many more are currently being edited and formatted for upload soon!
Not allowing me to use the accents I’ve purchased?
I have really liked the sound of this app and had since bought two accents from the store, however, the accents have not been added to my library, nor have they been restored since I have restarted my phone or anything like that.
However, the prompt for ‘Thank you for your purchase’ has come up before, as well as one of the accents appearing in my library, but this only happened once. My bank has also recorded the transaction and the money has been taken out of my account, as well as it has appeared on payment history etc.
Either give me my money back or tell me how to fix this.
Developer Response ,
Hi Shazzura. Apologies for dropping the ball on this. Did you get this fixed through emailing us? In case it is still an issue, the best fix is to delete the app entirely from your phone and re-install it. Then tap on RESTORE PURCHASES. If for any reason something you have purchased does not show, click through ALL the processes you would as if you were purchasing it. YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED TWICE! Let us know how you got on. The Team
Marginally less broken: but still broken
Since the most recent update, the facility for restoring purchases now takes a bit longer before it fails. I get as far as 'downloading 0 of 1' before it hangs, whereas before it just hung. I still haven't been able to get at the accent kit I paid for, and there has been no response to my attempts to contact the publishers via email or Twitter. Is this app any good? No idea - I haven't been able to use it with the accent I bought. My advice is to not touch it until reviews start appearing saying 'works now'. At the moment it's like a vending machine that takes your money but won't give you your chocolate.
Developer Response ,
Hi there. We are going through old reviews and noticed that there was no response we to yours. We see you say you emailed and tweeted. We always respond to this so are surprised to see you say there was no response. Could you let us know your twitter handle or email address so we can see where this went wrong? Do try the app again. It is in fine form!
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- The Big Gob Squad Ltd
- Size
- 51.9 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © The Big Gob Squad
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- West coast male 1987 accent £9.99
- West coast female 1987 £9.99
- DUBLIN CITY FEMALE 1 £9.99
- East cost female accent 1972 £9.99
- NRP FEMALE 1 £9.99
- LIVERPOOL FEMALE 1 £9.99
- NRP MALE 1 £9.99
- MANCHESTER FEMALE 1 £9.99
- East coast male 1966 accent £9.99
- EAST LONDON FEMALE 1 £9.99