midwestern accent
This app teaches people a Midwestern accent
Want to learn to talk like you're from Kansas? It's an app that uses machine learning to teach the pronunciation of a Midwestern accent. "We chose a Midwestern accent because we talked to a lot of speech therapists and they said this is the most commonly understood accent that people should learn," Elsa founder Vu Van told VentureBeat. Using machine learning, Van plans to extend Elsa to other accents. The same app that Van used to reduce her native Vietnamese accent could help an American moving to Vietnam learn a local Vietnamese accent.