Company Creates Software to Make Workers Sound “More White”

No, this is not a joke...

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Sharon Hurley Hall
September 12, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute

Hello friends,

I'd like to think it was a joke, but it wasn't. Recently a colleague shared an article about a Silicon Valley company that was implementing software to make its telesales team sound more white. WTF! My first thought was what kind of white supremacist BS is this?

Then I started to break down all the reasons this bothered me.

First and foremost, it sets whiteness as the standard. Now we already know we live in a world where that's the case in many regions. This solidifies it. It's all kinds of disturbing especially because...

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