Hearing an actor—especially an actor well-known for his voice, as Oscar winner J.K. Simmons certainly is—try out a new accent ...

Emily Sweeney, whose grandmother was born in Ireland, said being a journalist is in her blood ...

"Let's go!" Fans thrown by American accents, modern speech in new trailer for ancient Greece epic: "It sounds like they're outside a Starbucks." By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large But you know what also ...

I HAD breakfast with Stanley Tucci once. Well, not quite with him, but a few feet away from him. Close enough to smell the coffee, far enough for him not to call security. I was speaking at the Dingle ...

World No.2 Rory McIlroy was greeted with a loud and boisterous crowd as he climbed the leaderboard on day three of the the PGA Championship. Even the Northern Irishman's accent seemed to be fair game ...

There’s an argument that the most powerful Irish person in the world, until February, was Morgan McSweeney. The former chief of staff to British prime minister Keir Starmer is credited as the ...

David Attenborough was hailed as a “global treasure” by Mary Robinson this week, as the natural history presenter turns 100 today. The former president of Ireland, paying tribute to the man who has ...

The voice you hear on the other side of a call-centre interaction might soon sound a little more familiar, thanks to an AI tool that adjusts speech in real time – but not everyone thinks it’s a good ...

I was almost lost for words in the 80s when ITN subtitled an interviewee in one of my reports from Northern Ireland about a terrorist attack. The editors defended what I regarded as an unspeakable ...

Some people can pick up new accents instantly. How do they do it? And can I learn to speak like an office worker in Cincinnati with the help of some new science? Jennifer Scapetis-Tycer, a dialect ...