Accent change
Stanford students are building an app to change your accent Sanas founders Shawn Zhang, Maxim Serebryakov and Andrés Pérez Soderi met when they were students at Stanford. 1) Before reading the text looks at its title and say what can it be about, what issues might it raise? Stanford students are building an app to change your accent The Stanford students heard the sadness in their friend's voice when he shared the news. "Guys, I had to quit my job." To them, it didn't make sense. He was fluent in English and Spanish, extremely friendly and an expert in systems engineering. Why hadn't he been able to hold down a call center job? His accent, the friend said, made it hard for many customers to understand him; some even hurled insults because of the way he spoke. ...