Why AI software 'softening' accents is problematic
"Why isn't it a beautiful thing?" a puzzled Sharath Keshava Narayana asked of his AI device masking accents.
"Why isn't it a beautiful thing?" a puzzled Sharath Keshava Narayana asked of his AI device masking accents.
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Optics & Photonics
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Planetary Sciences
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Molecular & Computational biology
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Astronomy
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Cell & Microbiology
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A team of researchers has developed a software tool called DANGER (Deleterious and ANticipatable Guides Evaluated by RNA-sequencing) analysis that provides a way for the safer design of genome editing in all organisms with ...
Biotechnology
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