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New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents
A UK company says it is better at reproducing a range of accents compared with US or Chinese rivals.
To combat this, the company Synthesia spent a year compiling its own database of UK voices with regional accents, through recording people in studios and gathering online material. Meanwhile the US-based start-up Sanas is taking the opposite approach, developing tools for deployment in call centres which "neutralise" the accents of Indian and Filipino staff, as reported by Bloomberg in March. "Language models are homogenising speech," agrees AI expert Henry Ajder, who advises governments and tech firms, including Synthesia.
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