About AI voice modification making call center workers sound American.
Has this happened?
Yes 89 (74%)Not sure 15 (12%)No 16 (13%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About AI voice modification making call center workers sound American.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
If they were really good at their job, they wouldn't need Asian employees. They'd just use the AI chat to handle everything. Why does an AI need a human to feed it what to say? That's not a very good AI. That's just voice modification, and that's been done for so long it's not even close to impressive. Have the AI hear the human voice, decide what to say that is relevant and useful, then generate a voice to deliver that information, then I'd almost be impressed.
What you described is pretty much how I feel all AI/ML is at this point. A decent website with a large humans operating in the background. Not impressed. At. All.