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Accentism for profit? What Telus is getting wrong about accents

By Molly Babel, Professor of Linguistics, University of British Columbia
Amanda Cardoso, Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia

An AI accent manipulation tool may be “cool” technology, but it is arguably also a form of discrimination against workers whose voices are being altered.

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