Ofer Ronen is the CEO of Tomato.ai, an AI platform to soften speech accents of people as they speak. He was previously at Google where he built Contact Center AI products. Prior to this, he was the cofounder and CEO of Pulse.io and Sendori.

(00:26) Accent Modification in Real Time
(02:21) Training Data for AI Models
(04:14) Overview of Tomato AI
(05:36) Challenges in Modifying Speech Accents
(07:17) Role of Phonetics and Linguistics
(08:19) Handling Intonation and Subtleties in Different Languages
(09:36) Advances in AI for Speech Modification
(11:21) Addressing Societal Bias and Ethical Considerations
(13:08) Expanding Accent Modification to Different Accents
(14:20) Deployment on Mobile Devices and Computational Requirements
(16:02) Disclosure Policy for Accent Modification
(17:59) Future Applications of Speech Modification
(19:48) Ripe Areas for Innovation in Contact Center AI
(22:28) Impact of Generative AI on Speech Modification
(24:53) Demonstrating Success in Contact Center AI
(27:06) Future of AI and Speech Modification
(28:37) Rapid Fire Round

Ofer's favorite book: Life 3.0 (Author: Max Tegmark)

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