This essentially. It was an easy voice and more importantly videocall software that was free. There were alternatives for text (ICQ, AIM) which were nice and everyone had them, and voice (Teamspeak, Mumble) which were either not free or you had to host them yourself and neither did Videocalls. So you begrugingly had a skype account too.

make it easier to understand people with really thick accents

I feel like people with thick accents will not be understood by the Speech model either

But you realize that it’s wrong on both counts, right?

Strawberry has three Rs or two Rs in the wrong spelling.

Oh no. Anyway…