The Importance of Data in Voice Modeling

Eley: One of my competitors couldn't at all manage the regional accent, specifically it was a long departed politician. Eley: It sounded like him, but the Boston accent completely evaporated. And Sakeba Weilback said it was probably an artifact of the fact that this company did go out and scour tens of thousands,. hundreds of thousands, of hours of voice through podcasts, YouTube, wherever else to train its model. So you naturally have biases with accents or regions that you've collected a lot more data than you haven't.