{"id":132705,"date":"2021-12-19T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/these-former-stanford-students-are-building-an-app-to-change-your-accent"},"modified":"2021-12-19T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T20:23:06","slug":"these-former-stanford-students-are-building-an-app-to-change-your-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/these-former-stanford-students-are-building-an-app-to-change-your-accent","title":{"rendered":"These former Stanford students are building an app to change your accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZTZ1T9VBa-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now their company, Sanas, is testing out artificial intelligence-powered software that aims to eliminate miscommunication by changing people\u2019s accents in real time. A call center worker in the Philippines, for example, could speak normally into the microphone and end up sounding more like someone from Kansas to a customer on the other end.<\/p>\n<p>Call centers, the startup\u2019s founders say, are only the beginning. The company\u2019s website touts its plans as \u201cSpeech, Reimagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, they hope the app they\u2019re developing<strong> <\/strong>will be used by a variety of industries and individuals. It could help doctors better understand patients, they say, or help grandchildren better understand their grandparents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now their company, Sanas, is testing out artificial intelligence-powered software that aims to eliminate miscommunication by changing people\u2019s accents in real time. A call center worker in the Philippines, for example, could speak normally into the microphone and end up sounding more like someone from Kansas to a customer on the other end. Call centers, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}