Born and raised Northern Irish but I'm routinely told I sound American

As an American I definitely understand the question. A lot of the sounds and words will make you sound American for a couple seconds but your real accent is very apparent on word like doubt and in your inflection. How interesting! Have you had a teacher from the State or something?

I can tell you’re from Northern Ireland, though some of your words do sound American.

As an American, I can tell that you’re Irish. However, your accent does sound closer to an American one than most other Irish accents I’ve heard.

There are words/phrases that sound super Irish (“down”, “sound like”, etc), and there are others that sound North American (I might lean more Canadian than American), but I definitely wouldn’t have assumed you were from N. America after hearing this.

You don't sound American, but I wouldn't place you in Ireland either. Certain vowels are very British Isles, like "doubt" but your intonation at times is close to American.

You sound Irish to this American.

As a Brit I can safely say you definitely still have NI cadence and intonation as well as just sounding Irish. Assumedly people are just mistaking you for some reason but I have no idea why.

There’s a musicality to the delivery that is definitely not American and reads as Irish. American accents tend to be more flattened out. That said, there were a couple of moments that sounded almost American (particularly around where you mentioned mumbling). Very nice accent though!

I'm American. You have a nice accent, but it doesn't sound at all American to me. 

Nope, your "o" gives you away. You don't have the thick accent that I have heard from the Northern Irish. I was in an Irish bar in Boston one time and was talking to a guy. I had a very difficult time understanding him. No, it wasn't the drink! He told me he was from Northern Ireland. No way do you sound like him. I can see how people could see your accent as American if they don't have a fine-tuned ear for the many American accents

You sound like a northern Irish person who spent a couple years as a youtuber

i can see where they’re coming from but i would never think you were actually american once i’d heard you speak for more than a few seconds (if that)! i’ve heard much more american sounding irish people

Haha except for a couple of vowels, you do sound American to me. I’m a native speaker from the Midwest. I’d probably say you’re Canadian but I can see why people say that.

You sound like a friend I have who was born in Ireland but moved to the US as a teen and now has a mix of both accents. Can definitely tell it’s not an actual American accent, however.

The way you pronounce “e” in America sounds rather American but everything else is noticeably Irish

You sound like an American who moved to Ireland long enough ago to pick up some of the accent, but not at a young enough age to completely adopt it.

You just sound like an ordinary Northern Irish person. Some people thought I was Canadian at university. This usually happens with people who aren’t familiar with our accent.

As a Scot, to me you sound more Scottish than Northern Irish. Specifically educated Edinburgh, but with definite NI elements.

Definitely not Belfast. Londonderry? I can see why people could hear American with how you pronounce some words , though. I'm from England.

I think I would have guessed NI based on how you pronounce "down" alone. Some words might have a bit of a mid-Atlantic tinge but I wouldn't say you sound American.

The American and Ulster accents are actually quite similar; in fact of all the accents in Britain & Ireland, the one that shares the most features with the modern day American accent is Ulster, probably due to the fact that proportionally more people from Ulster (or ‘Scotch Irish’ as they were known in the USA) immigrated to the USA than any other region. For me as someone from England, whilst I can always tell where someone is from, I do really hear the similarities especially between Western NI (Derry/Tyrone/Fermanagh) and American accents, especially with the vowels. And that’s what I hear with you. Your I and E vowels sound almost completely American, your A / Os sound quite Scottish but that’s common for many Ulster English accents. The giveaway that you’re 100% from Ulster though are your OU/OW vowels (in words like now, down, sound), there’s no doubt that you’re from Norn Iron once those slip out so there’s not. So it doesn’t shock me that people who aren’t super familiar with them or are less trained to distinguish between accents might mix those two accents up, and I’d hazard a guess that for a lot of non-native English speakers they may well think that a lot of Northern Irish people sound ‘American’.

To me you almost sound like a posh scot. Although I'm pretty bad at distinguishing between some NI and Scottish accents if they're not particularly strong (apart from the 'ow' sound ofc)

Not an American accent except a few words that give me a Midwestern vibe with the round “o”s

As an American, I hear your Northern Irish accent, but you seem to be softening it some to be more understandable. There are certain words where the NI accents sound very American already. That being said, I’ve heard young Irish from the ROI that sound very American.

You sound more American than Irish, i’m from the West Coast: the four words that would have me ask where you’re from are down, sound, England, and over. Your Irish accent is weak. Strong is the American accent with you.

I would've said you were Scottish. I think people mistaking you for an American are reading the energy rather than the accent. Major influencer vibes.

Nothing even remotely American about this accent. You sound distinctly Northern Irish. Anyone that says otherwise is tripping.

Your accent is definitely Irish but milder than a lot of other Irish people I’ve heard.

I can see why. To non natives or even some Americans might think you have a regional american accent.

I think as long as your fellow Northern Irish folks say you sound like them, that's all that matters.

I was in Belfast years ago and one of the people in our group sounded American. So I figured that's where the American accent must have originated. 

American husband says, yes you do sound American, with little differences here and there. 

Just coming back to the US from Rep of Ireland. Some things I notice: you have the foot strut split, most people in the south of Ireland didn't (and most if not all in the US have this split) You pronounce the vowel in down and the consonant t in a way that does sound Irish you pronounce the vowel in "to" in a way that doesn't sound American you do have æ raising in the word fantastic, which other Irish accents may not have, and which American accents tend to have. the vowel you use in not is pretty close to [ɔ]. Americans usually have [ɑ] or [ɒ], so this is not consistent with an American accent. At first I can't place your accent, but it starts to sound Irish after you talk for a bit. For me the shibboleth was the first time you said the word "that". before that point i couldn't tell. The English have more trouble placing you maybe because they aren't used to hearing rhotic accents.

Def more irish than American, but if I had to place you in North America you kind of sound like someone trying to do a Canadian Prairies accent.

as an american, if i had heard you without context i would have assumed you were irish. i usually find the northern irish accent much more strong and noticeable (my only reference point being derry girls and the guy from the great british baking show who fucked up his baked alaska). if anything i would just mistake you for being irish because your accent is a little subdued. in no universe would i ever think you sounded american.

The comments here are crazy to me. I’m American. Born and raised in Colorado. You sound like someone raised in America that has been living in Ireland for maybe a year and starting to pick up some of the lilt.

Lots of your speech patterns sound def North American but I can hear some Irish sounds coming and going. You have a wonderful voice, really.

You don’t sound American, the Rs and Os give it away. But you do have some American mannerisms in your speech, I think it’s just because you sound friendly and confident in your speech.

As an American, you definitely sound Irish to me but I can see why some non-Americans might think you’re American. I saw from some of your other replies that you haven’t lived in America or had close American family or friends in your life, but that you watched American TV growing up, so I’d be inclined to believe that caused your slightly more American-sounding accent. I saw someone else say that you sound like you’re from Ireland but have lived in America for years, and I agree. I have a friend who’s from London but moved to America when he was 12 or 13 (he’s now 21), and sounds similar to you in the sense that you can tell he’s British but his accent isn’t especially thick anymore.

Your consonants tend to sound somewhat like a general American accent, but your vowels are definitely Northern Irish. That makes your accent almost seem to fluctuate between the more consonant heavy words and vowel heavy words.

I’m an American. I think you sound American for the most part with certain vowels or final consonants creeping in that alert me you’re not American. You’d have no problem being understood in America :)

You sound American but not fully some words give the Irish away

You sound like you have a Northern Irish version of a mid-Atlantic accent. It’s more common to hear in Dublin private schoolboys, and not usually with an NI twang! But if you’ve spent a lot of time trying to make yourself more understandable, and spent a reasonable amount of time consuming US media, then this is your outcome! To me, I’d still recognise you as NI, but I’d assume you’d spent time living in the US. My husband’s Scottish cousin has lived ten years in Boston and he sounds like the Scottish version of you.

I'm from northern Ireland too and I have to admit, if I am listening to a podcast or something and there is a northern Irish guest and I wasn't aware, sometimes it takes a minute to figure out if they are American or Irish. I think it's the posher northern Irish accents that get me (I'm a culchie). I've been asked if I can Canadian a few times, and people abroad have asked if I am German more times than I care to remember haha I don't mean any offence but from your voice recording I think your accent sounds quite animated which could be throwing people off

Are you autistic? Lots of autistic people have an American twang to their accent (I can only assume from trying to learn social scripts from TV?). When I went to America with my family as a teenager everywhere we went my mum and dad and younger sibling would get "Oh my god I love your Irish accents!" And I'd say "I'm Irish too! 😊" and get either ignored or "oh".

You definitely do not sound American. I hear the NI in your accent, although it isn't extremely strong, but still there. 

American native here. You don’t sound like an American, but you sound more American than other Irish people do. Cool accent bro!

American living in Europe with tons of NI friends; you sound American 80% of the time then NI 20% of the time, I totally get why you get asked that lol