Again with the Accent!

Over the weekend I had to call my ISP -- and again, the automated voice thing couldn't understand my American accent! On a couple of menus, I tried imitating the accent of the Aussie phone robot giving me the instructions -- it worked once or twice, but ultimately the machine gave up and handed me over to a human Australian. It's kind of funny, and proof of how far voice recognition devices have to go... I wonder if Australians in the US run into the same problem?