Letter Published in TheNational UAE on 5Sep 18 It’s not just technology that can make us lose our accentsI write in reference to your article Not all accents are boss (great) when it comes to your voice-activated assistant (September 3): Justin Thomas nicely analysed the artificial intelligence adopting other languages and accents in his excellent opinion piece.He argues that we are in danger of slowly forgetting our own accents by changing the way we speak so the robots can understand us. The article was meaningful and thought-provoking.Many people who work overseas or work within the IT sector try to adopt the accent of the country in which they are operating and many never recover the accent they were born with.K Ragavan, Bengaluru
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