“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
Not in your case. You posted a video where you were talking from behind the camera. You speak Chinglish. 
Of course you have an accent in those cases. Everyone in the world speaks with an accent.
It may be true that such a person does not have a distinctive accent strongly associated with Texas or Alabama or Chicago or wherever you care to single out, but they still have an accent.
And, believe it or not, they would sound like Americans. maybe not particularly distinctive Americans, but Seppos nonetheless.
urodacus: You only have an accent because you’re not American.
People where I grew up don’t have accents. Everyone else does.
The key question for the Minnesota accent is whether you pronounce “bag” as if it rhymes with “vague”.[/quote]
There was the ‘ou’ and pronounced like ‘loud’…that’s Minnesota/Canadian isn’t it?
I got North East with highest probability of New York then , New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston…I’m from Ireland so there might be a little bit of a connection in that most Irish emigrants went to those states. Of course my accent has changed over the years here so could have been the Taiwan Americanese influence!
I know. I was just quoting the website results.
[quote=“Naughtius”]I thought this was a just a silly quiz with random results, but it absolutely nailed my accent. It also got everyone I know right too. Give it a try, but remember it’s only made to locate American accents, not those silly foreign ones.
gotoquiz.com/what_american_a … o_you_have[/quote]
Seems, even as a Saffa, I don’t have one of those “silly foreign ones”. 
Better than Texan …
bismarck: Presumably you don’t actually have an American accent though. Given a narrow enough range of parameters and a clever set of dichotomies (or trichotomies, etc. – if trichotomy is even a word, but you know what I mean), you can be anything.
For example:
Do you live on land or in the sea?
On land. Then you must be a giraffe, not a shark.
[quote=“GuyInTaiwan”]bismarck: Presumably you don’t actually have an American accent though. Given a narrow enough range of parameters and a clever set of dichotomies (or trichotomies, etc. – if trichotomy is even a word, but you know what I mean), you can be anything.
For example:
Do you live on land or in the sea?
On land. Then you must be a giraffe, not a shark.[/quote]
C’mon y’all! W’all 'Mericans now! 
I’m not. :raspberry:
I took that test, seems I am from Philadelphia. hmmm
Youse needa here it fer yaself
The cop with Ali G was really close to what I know. Kevin Bacon’s from around Philly too. I thought the Aussie actress in the 6th Sense did a real good Philly accent.
If you ever meet Tigerman he’s got a close accent to this except he’s from way up north. The Philly accent has been studied to death.
[wikipedia2=]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_accent[/wikipedia2]
The default setting on your test must be dumping in the Philly category. If you were Irish you’d get the same results.
Mine’s ‘The Midland’. 'Suppose that’s nice since English is my second language. 
I quite like the “Philly accent”. Seems natural and normal to me. It still has some of the usual rolling “r”, but other than that it’s much like what I’m used to hearing back home. 
Of course you have an accent in those cases. Everyone in the world speaks with an accent.
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But this test is for Americans (and it will work for English-Canadians), telling them what type of American accent they have. There is a type of neutral American accent that to Americans means you have no accent, and to the test makers means you have no accent. Of course they will still have an American accent to outsiders, but to other Americans they will sound like a the average accentless ideal you hear on TV (on shows that aren’t ‘ethnic’ or regional in some way.)
Another “midland” from Texas. The only thing Texan about my speech is the pace of it (slow) and my use of “ya’ll” (which isn’t exclusively Texas, more southern).
I had a Texan friend with a “midland” accent who was giving tours in english at the Chengkung University, and he told me the college was videotaping him to so that they could use the recordings to train Taiwanese students. I dared him to start giving tours in a heavy southern drawl so that in a couple years, the asian tour guides at Chengkung would give tours in an Asian-Southern accent hybrid.
New England.
[quote=“iamspartacus”]Another “midland” from Texas. The only thing Texan about my speech is the pace of it (slow) and my use of “ya’ll” (which isn’t exclusively Texas, more southern).
I had a Texan friend with a “midland” accent who was giving tours in english at the Chengkung University, and he told me the college was videotaping him to so that they could use the recordings to train Taiwanese students. I dared him to start giving tours in a heavy southern drawl so that in a couple years, the Asian tour guides at Chengkung would give tours in an Asian-Southern accent hybrid. [/quote]
I’d have gone a little more exotic, personally. I’d have started doing a Jamaican accent.