Trending

Stanford students building accent changer app

todayDecember 19, 2021

Background

“Guys, I had to quit my job.” To them, it didn’t make sense. He was fluent in English and Spanish, extremely friendly and an expert in systems engineering. Why hadn’t he been able to hold down a call center job? His accent, the friend said, made it hard for many customers to understand him; some even hurled insults because of the way he spoke. The three students realized the problem was even bigger than their friend’s experience. So they founded a startup to solve it.

Now their company, Sanas, is testing out artificial intelligence-powered software that aims to eliminate miscommunication by changing people’s accents in real time. A call center worker in the Philippines, for example, could speak normally into the microphone and end up sounding more like someone from Kansas to a customer on the other end.

Written by: Hot 806

Previous post

Trending

Jupiter’s Moon Sounds Like R2-D2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BKjnAgNgY The Juno spacecraft is gathering data about the origin of the solar system’s biggest planet — in which more than 1,300 Earths could fit. Among its recent findings are photos from inside the planet’s ring, a map of its magnetic field, details of its atmosphere and a trippy soundtrack from a spacecraft’s travels around one of its moons. But it’s not exactly a song, or even perceptible to the […]

todayDecember 19, 2021

0%