[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] another use for AI

[Elaine]

... or from Detroit, where I am from. It's the flat Midwest non-accented
pronunciation of the region. TV announcers are trained to use it to
eliminate region bias.

As a Speech/Language Pathology major at the University of Michigan, there
was no mention of "standard" English. What we were taught was a phonetic
alphabet to use for transcription when evaluating someone's language. Each
phoneme has a specific pronunciation and symbol, so we can record properly
exactly how someone articulates sounds, accent or not. It even allows
transcription of every language with the same symbols.

Don't you think that training people from different regions to all sound
the same would lose the beautiful, multi-faceted diversity that helps give
personality and authenticity to each individual and our melting pot? It
would kind of be like wanting everyone to be white and Christian, and then
take away cultural and regional differences as well. Once we reach that
state, what would be left to talk about? May as well all be converted to
rote robots, with no personality or emotion.

- elaine

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 12:06 PM john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Jan was a Speech Pathology major at Emerson.  Freshman year they had a
> class that taught “standard” English.  I think the objective was that
> everyone sounded as if they came from Chicago
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> Maybe they should, also, translate some regional American accents into
> ordinary “American”?
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>     – Mike A
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> On Monday, August 29, 2022, 11:53 AM, john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net>
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> *https://mashable.com/article/ai-startup-makes-call-center-foreigners-sound-white#:~:text=This%20time%20around%2C%20Palo%20Alto,of%20making%20them%20sound%20white
> <https://mashable.com/article/ai-startup-makes-call-center-foreigners-sound-white#:~:text=This%20time%20around%2C%20Palo%20Alto,of%20making%20them%20sound%20white>.*
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