AI that filters voices and soften accents, with Ofer Ronen

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Ofer Ronen joins us as he shares with us how AI is being used to filter voices and making accents clearer to understand!

Ofer Ronen is an ex-Googler with some immense experience in deploying AI systems for large enterprises including the infamous example of Agent Assist at Verizon. Ofer’s third startup is tomato.ai, a company that has AI technology that’ll strip away your accent! Or soften it, rather.

Ofer joins us to share his lessons learned from years of deploying AI in the enterprise, as well as the use cases, value and technicalities of this new breed of AI technology: voice filtering and accent softening.

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00:00 Introduction
02:20 Welcome Ofer
08:19 All about Tomato.ai
13:00 Changing accents
14:12 Website example
20:55 Tuning certain accent types?
25:14 Pilot feedbacks
29:04 Speech to speech models
33:05 AI legalisation
36:55 What clients are using
40:47 Understanding accents
45:50 Where this technology can be used
52:10 Outro

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