Sounds like the sound in the Ridley video was doctored in some ways. Higher frequencies chopped, and I think they used some system to chop tiny portions out of the information stream. Nice looking young lady, though. No complaints about
that information stream, nyuck nyuck nyuck. :-)
Geriatrically speaking, I don't have any problem with normal sound streams. But as soon as you start "processing" it or introduce background noise or distortion, I have a problem.
I also have a problem with the English propensity for glottal stops instead of fully pronouncing their "t"s.
WRT high pitches, I can hardly understand a word of Bernadette's lines in Big Bang Theory. I read somewhere that wasn't her normal voice, though.
I get along fine with my landlady, but she talks so loudly into her phone that it starts clipping and therefore introduces a lot of odd (as opposed to even) harmonics and sounds crackley. I sometimes have to talk FTF with her later to verify my understanding of what she said.
So I'm not sure Hawkmoon's problem is with her accent as much as it is with the sound quality
per se.
Terry, 230RN
REF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop"...the glottal stop is transcribed with an apostrophe, ⟨’⟩, which is the source of the IPA character ⟨ʔ⟩."
The glottal stop can be heard when many British speakers pronounce "glo’al stop."