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Nadine O’Regan: Call centre staff have new technology to disguise their accents – sounds good to me

Accents can trigger prejudice, so a Silicon Valley company has developed live cloaking software to disguise the voices of workers in foreign call centres, making them sound more American

For years, call centre workers in countries like the Philippines and India have been trained by managers to try to neutralise their accents. Picture: Getty