Cursed Startup Using AI to Remove Call Center Workers' Accents

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Cursed Startup Using AI to Remove Call Center Workers' Accents
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, a startup called Sanas is offering "accent translation" that makes call center employees — many of whom are hired overseas, where labor is cheaper, and hence have non-American accents — sound more palatable to American ears., and judging by the $32 million it's raised in its first series of funding, investors think there's a big business opportunity there.

"There is virtually nothing in the labor process of call centers which involves choice by the workers in terms of technology," Winifred Poster, a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told

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