An AI call handler could struggle with Birmingham accents, it's feared - Ingus Kruklitis/iStockphoto A police force trialling an AI-powered non-emergency call service fears the technology will not ...

Peaky Blinders takes place in Birmingham, where the accents are tough to copy. The show’s creator Steven Knight told the BBC that the Brummie accent is so tricky that production companies shy away ...

A reader congratulates the Peaky Blinders writers for putting the West Midlands - and its accents - on the map. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in ...

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 ...

An expert has revealed Cillian Murphy makes one telling mistake that gives away his near-perfect accent in Peaky Blinders. The Irish actor, who hails from Cork, has been playing Birmingham crime boss ...

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 ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Plus subscription to Express and Star you get full access to our award winning journalism for the news that matters to you and more. Brummies have ...

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 ...