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This 6-Million-Dollar AI Changes Accents as You Speak

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So a friend-group that included a computer science major from China, an AI-focused management science and engineering (MSE) major from Russia, and a business-oriented MSE major from Venezuela isn't an anomaly. We knew about accent-reduction therapy and being taught to emulate the way someone else speaks in order to connect with them.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. where he continued his networking work.

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