Trying out accents on Praat!

I decided to try to speak in a southern dialect to be able to compare it to my accent.  The biggest difference between the two spectrograms is the length of time it took me to say each sentence.  I'm not sure if it is because my poor impersonation of a southern accent or just my intense concentration on the pronunciation of each sound naturally made me say the sentence more slowly.  

In my first, spectrogram with me speaking naturally a lot of the words seem to be merged together and more pronounced and dramatic.  Even the difference in the way I said the word "the" is significantly different in each spectrogram,  in the natural one it has a small amplitude, while in my southern accent it has a sharp high amplitude in the beginning and then returns to looking more similar to the natural way i say "the."

The two words with the largest differences are "butter" and "cot."  The way i said "butter" naturally put even emphasis on both syllables where as with my southern accent the second syllable did not have as great an amplitude and slowly returned back to the middle line.  "Cot" is also very different, but the only way i can describe the difference is the shape the waves have made.  In my natural sentence, "cot" looks like a diamond, but in my southern accent it looks more rectangular and overall has a greater amplitude for a longer duration.  

Hearing your voice played back to you is always a strange experience, but adding the horrible imitated southern accent made listening to my own voice even odder, though entertaining.