A question for people from the UK regarding North American accents?

Question

http://www.gazzaro.it/accents/sound/out%20and%20about.mp3

To you, does this sound like a American or Canadian accent? Or do they sound the same?

Answer 1

I would say Canadian.

It doesn't sound like the American accents I would recognise (ie New Yorker, Texan or Californian)

... but then it is 4am, so perhaps sleep deprivation is messing with my head

Answer 2

sounds a wee bit irish to me!! But i think its canadian

Answer 3

Sounds a little more Canadian. If you are trying to exagerate a Canadian accent you sometimes spell the words as  Ã¢Â€Â˜oot’ and ‘aboot’.

    What Canadians say is “out” and “about” — pretty much the way the words are spelt — but Canadians have a way of forming the vowels toward the front of our mouths and without much vertical space between our upper and lower palates.

    Americans tend to pronounce the same two words with the sounds formed farther back in their mouths and with more vertical space — something like “ah-out” and “abah-out.”

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Between immigration and the francophones in Canada, only a little more than 50% of the country now speaks English as their native language.

Answer 4

This doesnt sound American.  I am in the military so I work with people from all over the United States.   No where have I encountered an accent like that.  I couldnt give you a location in the US where people have similar pronounciaction.