<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">... 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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">- elaine</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 12:06 PM john rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-msg-8094458767745103625"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John Rudy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">781-861-0402<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">781-718-8334 (cell)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">John.rudy@alum.mit.edu</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">13 Hawthorne Lane<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bedford, MA 01730-1047<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="99" height="94" style="width: 1.0312in; height: 0.9791in;" id="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:182ea701fe24cff311"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Michael Alexander <<a href="mailto:mna.ma@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mna.ma@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 29, 2022 12:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> john rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>>; Lex Computer Group <<a href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" target="_blank">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] another use for AI<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Maybe they should, also, translate some regional American accents into ordinary “American”?<br><br> – Mike A<br><br><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yahoo-quoted-begin" style="margin-top:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:rgb(113,95,250)">On Monday, August 29, 2022, 11:53 AM, john rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div id="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530"><div><div><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://mashable.com/article/ai-startup-makes-call-center-foreigners-sound-white#:~:text=This%20time%20around%2C%20Palo%20Alto,of%20making%20them%20sound%20white" target="_blank">https://mashable.com/article/ai-startup-makes-call-center-foreigners-sound-white#:~:text=This%20time%20around%2C%20Palo%20Alto,of%20making%20them%20sound%20white</a>.</span></i><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John Rudy</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">781-861-0402</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">781-718-8334 (cell)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">John.rudy@alum.mit.edu</a> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">13 Hawthorne Lane</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bedford, MA 01730-1047</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_-8094458767745103625yiv6300270530msonormal"><img border="0" width="99" height="94" style="width: 1.0312in; 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