# Accent in five fields

People and places / Expression / Direction rules. Checked 2026-10-13.

Voices that sound like a place and a person, not a cartoon.

- Use when: Any generated dialogue with an accent or a regional voice.
- Phrase: speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/expression/accent-five-fields
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/expression/accent-five-fields.json

## Watch out

- Without the closing line the model plays the accent for laughs. (practitioner; Dan Kieft (1 Sep 2026) via Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. Speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice. The scene is [your setting].
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Three layers per line: https://directorchair.ai/expression/three-layers-per-line

## Source

Rules from Director Chair field notes on video prompting

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