Want to learn to talk like you’re from Kansas? Pick up Elsa Speak. It’s an app that uses machine learning to teach the pronunciation of a Midwestern accent. ”We chose a Midwestern accent because we ...

The Midwestern accent is well worth studying, because there’s more than one. There’s the Inland North accent, spoken along the lower Great Lakes; the Midland accent, spoken on the prairies; and the ...

My friends have told me I don’t seem like I’m from Michigan. I was born and raised in a quiet town on Lake Michigan and both of my parents are natives of the western side of the state. I’m not sure ...

Josh O’Connor joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance to discuss his new movie “Rebuilding.” He was joined by writer-director Max Walker-Silverman and his co-stars Meghann Fahy, ...