When I was in the marine equipment business two decades ago, we had many mail-order customers who phoned orders from Newfoundland outports. Fortunately, one of my colleagues was fluent, and could field the Newfoundland calls when necessary. Here in Nova Scotia, there is also a quite distinct dialect spoken by some on Cape Breton Island. Another great dialect is found in Bermuda, where my wife hails from. It has similarities to West Indian English, but not precisely.
Accents are interesting in relation to the use of dictation software.
Broadband Internet was introduced in Oz for commercial and residential purchase mid last year 2000. Unfortunately Telstra BP has the bigger coverage of the states in Oz as Optus has not made there broadband services available yet to all states. I Live in Adelaide, South Australia where I only have the option for Telstra BP to for a Broadband connection. As one Politician stated in an article in the paper. Myself and so far 5381 broadband users have screamed and jumped up and down like a 3 year old having a hissy fit in an online petition but to be given a cold responce from Telstra.