Krisp is using AI to help Indians sound like Americans on calls

Audio startup Krisp on Wednesday said it is launching a new feature that uses AI to change a user’s accent during calls. The company is initially rolling out support for changing Indian English accents to U.S. English. The startup says the accent conversion process preserves the speaker’s voice and only switches phonemes to match American accents. The feature has apparently been tested in enterprise environments, and a beta version is now coming to the Krisp desktop app. Users can turn the feature on any time during or before calls. Arto Minasyan, the company’s co-founder, said the idea for the feature stemmed from a problem he faced in his conversations. “Many people don’t understand my accent even though I am speaking English well. We thought changing accents might help people understand each other much better. We started working on this problem two years ago and now we are releasing it in beta,” Minasyan said. However, when this reporter tested the feature, the processed voice di ... Read full article.