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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Julian Hall wrote:
tom wrote:I just got a weird call - form someone saying they were from Berkleys Bank doing a survey of the market.'Sorry not interested' *click* :)What got me was the fact the speaker had asian voice patterns but an American 'accent'Learned their English in America [or off American software]? More common than you'd think.
And/Or watched a lot of (cheap) American TV. I've known a few people from asian parts with an american accent.And as an aside, my sister-in-law is German, but speaks "english" with a broad Scottish accent as that's where she learned english! (And of-course myself & brother are Scottish)
The dalek sounds is often an overly compressed data link, or compressed then uncompressed and re-compressed again. (think 4th generation JPG image, or VHS video) Or it could just be packet loss. A lot of these places use VoIP (and Asterisk!) to place calls as they can often get much cheaper international calls that way. I now get a few "spams" a week from call centres looking for cheap (voice) routes to multiple places.
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