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Startup uses AI to transform call center workers' accents into "white voice" [1]

['Mark Frauenfelder']

Date: 2022-08-23

Have you seen the 2018 movie Sorry to Bother You? It's about a young black man who gets a job at a call center and has trouble making sales until he adopts a "white voice."

A new company called Sanas seems to have based its business plan on the movie. It has developed software that converts call center workers' accents into "standard American English." If you listen to Sanas' demo, it sounds remarkably like the white voice in Sorry to Bother You.

From SF Gate:

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