Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: I am watching “Watson” on CBS, which is set ...

It all began, as these things often do, with an Instagram ad. “No one tells you this if you’re an immigrant, but accent discrimination is a real thing,” said a woman in the video. Her own accent is ...

Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s ...

From Florence Pugh to Paul Mescal, global stars are redefining what authenticity sounds like — and audiences are keeping score. By Remy Blumenfeld In today’s Hollywood, the wrong vowel can cost you ...

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 meets Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam, who is excited to welcome the many Steelers fans traveling to Ireland for the game at Croke Park and gets a quick lesson about "yinz." ...

For some reason, certain things about a person just convey trustworthiness. Accents are one such thing. Like, apparently, this one accent hailing from Pennsylvania. In a study entitled “Who To Trust: ...

If you thought Reese Witherspoon’s Tennessee accent was spot-on as June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line,” you were right – she grew up in Nashville. Actors often work hard to lose Southern accents – ...

New York’s distinct accent — the one that brought us Joe Pesci’s defensive “Funny how?” in “Goodfellas” and Fran Drescher’s thick “Oh, Mr. Sheffield” from the sitcom “The Nanny” — is rubbing a lot of ...

The company is initially rolling out support for altering 17 Indian dialects into US English but plans to expand in the future with Filipino and more. The tool is compatible with Zoom, Microsoft Teams ...

Teleperformance SE, the world's largest call center operator, is implementing an artificial intelligence system designed to soften the accents of English-speaking Indian workers in real-time. The ...