Anyone here who's a native English speaker, but learned a General American (or other) accent [View all]

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for whatever reason? If so, how's that working for you?

I'm asking because I have a heavy regional accent. I don't mind it now (in fact it was fun to be in Maine and every time I opened my mouth, someone said, "Where are you from?" )
but I wonder if voice recognition technology would work better with a General American accent.

I wonder if I could learn it from Youtube, or English as Second Language materials.
I'm probably too lazy to do either, but just wondering.