Audiobook Narrator Matt Haynes TEXAS ACCENT 

I'm from dallas, I never realized I had an accent until now.

The texan accent is usually more subtle and you cant really tell between the "middle american" accent and a texan accent but just get a texan to drink and it sort of comes out

Born and raised in Texas. The mistake people make is they try to generalize a Texas accent. You've got to pick a region and go with it then it sounds real. A generalized Texas accent never works. There's north Texas, central Texas, east Texas, south Texas, southeast Texas, and west Texas. They're all different. There was a lot of focus on vowel sounds but not so much on consonants. More focus on the R's. Generally we do a hard R. Also a lot of g's and t's at the end of words get dropped. "Fixing" becomes "fixin'", "running" becomes "runnin'", etc. Too much "uh" and you sound more deep south than Texan. Then there's classic phrases that if you don't use then you stick out like a sore thumb. "Fixin-ta" or "might could", "ain't", "y'all", "all y'all", etc.

You sound like a robot...which makes you a great narrator.

I learned English in Texas and... this is disturbingly accurate😅 I didn't even know I was doing all that extra work while talking

As a Texan, I can say you did a good job. You're right though--where you are in Texas is going to be a big driver of what your accent will sound like, and some folk have it more, some have it less.

I've lived in Texas all of my life and you sounded like Texans I've heard, usually insurance salesmen or store managers.

Dude I've been surfing Texas accent instruction RU-vid's for two days - you win by miles. The instruction + lyric stream is a winner. Understanding and a practice tool. Five stars🙌🙌

Matt, you done purty good on that recitation, Boy. Read to the end for all of my thoughts. I'm a 73-year-old sixth generation Texan; college degree, career air force officer, father of three and grandfather of eight. Your only problems include: your Texas Talk doesn't go with your age, apparent education/ socioeconomic group as best I can tell. I talk slow, my kids speak fast, and my grandkids even faster. Then there are differences among farm/ranch dwellers, rural small towns, small and large city folks. Texas has 254 counties and probably at least half that many dialects/accents. First step: say all single syllable words with two syllables. And this doesn't count the Mexican and Black talk.

Matt you are amazing!! From one audiobook narrator to another, I absolutely loved watching and listening to you. You have become my inspiration for a Texan male character that is in a book series I am currently narrating. Thank you so much for sharing!

Given my experience living in Texas for the last 5 years, I'd say this is spot on...

I'm working on a "gentle Texan accent" for an audiobook I'm soon-to-narrate, so, thanks! I'll be studying this one, among others! I also like your goal of learning 52 accents. I realize you were doing this two years ago, but you've inspired me to consider some creative goals to improve my skills!

I am from Dallas too and you got it!

OMG! What a fabulous Texas accent and Pale Blue Eyes interpretation! I'm hit'n Follow rih now! Rock n' Roll, BAY-bee!

You are so talented!

Thanks alot. really amazing accent

This was actually helpful

excellent! thank you!

Hahahaha I live in Texas. You sound like my pastor! xD (when you do the accent)

Hey, Matt. I came across this video as I was doing a bit of dialect research for a book narration. I've spent about 4 years in Central Texas, where the most significant vocal idiosyncrasy I've noticed is vocal placement. If the vocal placement is correct, the rest just seems to follow. It seems to me that if I just place my voice way in the back and at the top of my palate, my speech sounds Texan. At least to me it does. I visualize myself doing an impression of George Bush and bam. There it is. And Texans also speak a bit slower than those crazy folks from the coasts. Again, that's what I have noticed. And again, my ear has really been focusing on Central Texas. Austin, the Hill Country.... That's pretty different than the more nuanced sound of East Texas. Thank you for your wonderful video. I'll be back here when I need to refine those regional differences!

As a 4th gen Texan, I can say this is a pretty good technical breakdown of our accent.

So glad I found this! I have an audio/video audition for "cowboy" on Monday! I've been in Austin for over twenty years and still sound like a "Yankee."

I’m a Texan but I don’t have an accent, so I’m watching this video to see I can learn one

hey Matt... so helpful. ty... i just listened to another youtube coach and she had a code embedded in her video to get a little donation. I was happy to oblige. I don't know if there's a lot of money to be made, but you should be paid for your work too! best...

Thank You for the tutorial you are straightforward to understand

great video.

I'm from the UK but I try audiobook work and love doing Southern America, but didn't even know Texas is different. I just listen to Billy Bob Thornton hahaha x

Wow, nice work with the cards and vowel signs.

I kinda explain it as adding a syllable to every word. That definitely is a big part of it

thnx man

I’m from Houston and I just now figured out that I do that mouth bouncing thing

thanks!

These are average southern accents not just Texas. You sound more like Alabama than Texas in your depiction, but Texans do sound like that in places like East Texas. I’ve lived in both states for many years. Although being from Texas and the south, I noticed a distinct difference in the linguistics from each state. I imagine it’s similar to all regions of the country that are similar but different. To western America, most of the northeast sounds the same although there are distinct differences. Midwestern states are similar but different and so on.

Loving the vids, great series, subbed! If I could give one constructive criticism, I'd advise to not stare unblinkingly at the camera non-stop, it can be a bit disconcerting.

This mortally wounded me as it triggered flashbacks in the back of my forehead. Really helpful. To be honest.

My sister went to Boston and we are from Houston they said that she had a accent i don’t think we can’t hear it it sounds normally to us 🙂

I’m from Lubbock area, many of us sound like this hahha

He kinda sorta reminds me of the way Matthew McConnaghey sounds. All unnaturally forced to sound sugary sweet. If you wanna sound Texas, it can't be forced. Go stub your little toe against a wall corner and scream, "Deep in the heart of Texas". You'll either get it, or you won't.

Wow! Really good East Texas accent!

I think y'all all awesome Catch a later

Good job, from a 6th generation Texan, lil ol lady. Red State, Texas my Texas.

Sounds like Bill Clinton lol

I’m in Houston I didn’t know I had a accent

Well, you certainly ain't gonna fit in, but you got the basics. A lot of Texans have a real subtle accent. It only comes out in pronouncing certain words. There's also two different accents that vary by part. We call it the twang, and the drawl. The drawl is probably the larger, and you find it more in rural areas. Again, that said, the accent will have slight variances depending on the part. It's a huge state, with a lot of influences in what makes us.

I think people of Texas are good and friendly

Can anyone please recommend an audiobook that sounds like this please!

My great great grand fathers name was Sam Houston Williams Jr. no idea how far back my blood goes. You didn’t do bad. For a non native it sounded Texan but still an imitation. You wouldn’t order dinner or hold a conversation with a native Texan like that without them asking what your doin. But I appreciate you effort to learn our accent. Never realized how hard it is for folks that didn’t grow up talking like us. My mom is from Vidor and dads from Pineland. Both are east Texas close to Beaumont but I was raised in central Texas small town. Some influence from Dallas. My accent is thick enough to float an egg. Good job tho better then the generic tv souther accent, god that make us mad to hear that “ yeehaw” Hollywood bullshit

Texas is huge. There are different accents all throughout it, people

He ain't wrong

I like East TX accents. I live in Houston and most people here aren’t from TX so I don’t hear many TX accents anymore. I hope America’s regional accents don’t completely disappear. 😉

Did you do Texas Panhandle accent?

Just stumbled on this; did you learn them after all? It’s 2021

I thought the lesson was pretty accurate. There are definitely some people in Texas who talk like that. For the lyrics, I recommend slowing it down.

....linger onnnnnn pale blue eyes

This video should be called the Dr. Phil accent.

dude u look like young Kevin Spacey

Well alright alright alright

Did you learn all those accents? It's October 2016 now.

Chicago accent how they pronounce short vowels and long vowels

For “pure”…try a flat, single syllable “pyuur ” instead of “Pyu-wer”….It more an “er” sound rather than “oo”. ….”Pyuur”

Pretty good. Actually you’d make an excellent Southern televangelist.

Nice. I'm actually tired of people always doing the Hee yawwww type of Texan accent. I bet that kind of extreme accent does exist somewhere in Texas, but I've never actually heard it except on TV shows like Smokey and The Bandit, for one. Have you? I'm really curious.

im from round real southern texas. what bout yall

If you would like , I can help you learn a little bit of the accent by coaching you , I was born and raised in Lufkin Texas Deep EastTexas , Let me know if I can help you

Honestly more of an Oakie accent but not to bad

Sounds more East Texas, like the piney woods / big thicket area. Certainly not West Texas!

Texas is massive and has different accents across the state, so it is really hard to generalize an accent for this state. There are some areas where you hardly get any accent at all, and other areas where you get a super strong accent. East Texas is different than Western Texas, for example west Texans smooth all their price vowels and east Texans do some and not others. We also have the pin/pen merger so we generally pronounce those vowel sounds mostly the same so for example the word "fence" comes out more like fince". The accent you're doing wouldn't be very accurate in the area of Texas I am from, we don't do nearly all that vowel rounding and we don't turn every vowel into a diphthong like that... but it isn't the worst attempt at a Texas accent I've heard.

Close, but no cigar.

I was born and raised in Texas. And this is not how we talk.

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Just run all of your words together as conjunctions.

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Most words have vowels? Not if you're speaking Polish they don't.

Lenga aan yo payel bloo ahhzz

Just a critique, this sounds alittle more like the aristocrat plantation owner in the south east Texas, I'm from north west rural Texas just south of the panhandle.

Not bad. Not just right though.

I've been in Texas my whole life we have different slang and that was the worst accent I've heard so far

How to speak like Forest Gump 101

I've been all over Texas maybe 8% ppl talk like that the rest don't this is so inaccurate.

I'm sorry but that isn't Texan. You have muddled Georgia and Virginia accents together. Good luck with your studies.

Not a bad try, but..... you sound just like Bill Clinton! Lol!

I disagree that they sound like that.

Glad you think Texans sound like Forrest Gump. You sound like Alabama

I've lived in Texas my whole life, and this isn't really a good accent. Your interpretation more like an over exaggerated older man.

Omg his normal voice is so annoying tho

ROFL You have no clue! If you are not Texan you will never know! LMAO