The Aussie man's voice has been ranked as one of the least annoying accents, so g'day darl!

The Hemsworth brothers, Hugh Jackman and Russel Crowe have clearly helped the Aussie accent flourish on a global stage because a new survey reveals it's among one of our favourites to listen to.

With coronavirus forcing many singles to resort to phone calls and video dates, The Knowledge Academy – a UK based research company – sought to figure out which English-speaking accent was the most desirable… and most annoying.

Selecting 10 English-speaking countries to choose from, over 250 participants from different nationalities listened to five minutes of an accent, and ranked them from most to least annoying.

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Overall, the Aussie accent was one of the least annoying in men, second only to Scotland and Ireland, which we can only assume is due to the hype around Outlander and Game of Thrones.

Aussie women on the other hand, were considered the fourth most annoying voice, as participants "tuned out" of listening after an average two minutes and 29 seconds.

Perhaps it's a reflection of the hotly contested (and at times tedious) Presidential Election for 2020, but American accents were voted the most annoying across the sexes.

People tuned out of listening to the female-American accent after just over a minute and 20 seconds, while the male accent turned listeners off after a mere minute and 17 seconds.

As for the English accent, both men and women ranked a comfortable sixth least annoying in the polls, so it goes to show speaking the Queen's English doesn't always go astray.

Language specialist Yelena McCafferty says of the results, that they say more about the people voting than the accents themselves.

"People are attracted to accents which sound familiar and it's only natural that we tend to trust somebody who speaks like us. It makes us think that the person is from our own community, which is important for us on the subconscious level."

McCafferty's assertion is curious considering, despite the overwhelming presence of American accents in everyday life — be it on screen, in the news or potentially in our neighbourhoods — it was considered the most insufferable.

The language specialist claimed "survival instinct" kicks in when we hear or experience something new for the first time.

"We need to see who is our friend and who is our foe based on comparisons to ourselves or someone we know," she says.

"When Meghan Markle married Prince Harry, some speech experts said she started sounding more British, but once the Duchess of Sussex moved back to the US, we could certainly hear her low-pitched Californian accent again."

The survey follows the increase in dating app users opting to try different platform's "video function", with the pandemic prompting more phone call and video dates than ever before.

In a survey of more than 5,000 users for a week in May last year, Tinder discovered 40 per cent wanted to have a video date in order to decide whether to meet up in person, prompting the app to release their first ever video function in July, 2020.

At the start of the pandemic, Bumble Australia recorded a 31 per cent increase of people using the app's video chat function.

All we can say is g'day darl, how's it goin'?

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