There's a lady at work who does voiceover work for free. We have paid, professional people who do voiceovers, but you have to have them bill to your project and it isn't cheap so this lady in the department who has a very good voice but doesn't require billing is really helpful for small-budget projects.
I had been aware of her, so I approached her about the narration for a video I'm doing. She was more than happy to help out, but when I got the audio files back I realized I'd heard her work before and it drove me absolutely batty.
My video is about calibrating pH meters. She decided she needed to clearly enunciate the /t/ in nearly every occurrence of the word meter, as well as water and button. Now, button doesn't sound quite so stilted, it comes across as someone just trying to be clear, but there is no one in the English-speaking world who says or expects to hear /mitəɹ/. British dialects will use /t/, yes, but most of them don't pronounce the /ɹ/. It sounds really bizarre and stilted the way the narration came out.
I felt bad asking for a re-take since she did it for free, but tried to word it nicely. I told her I was looking for a more "conversational" feel and linked her to an online dictionary's pronunciation, asking if she could pronounce it that way.
Her answer was, "Yeah, I originally pronounced it with a D but went back to re-do it. The D is just super Utah and so any time I produce something for outside of Utah I like to make sure the T is there."
.... would whoever is telling people lies about their "Utah accents" please stop? No, that isn't super Utah, that's something that every other American English speaker does.
I didn't say that, but I did want to reply, so I told her not to worry about having a Utah accent, she sounded very standard American to me.
Goodness.