Translator Steve Winfield’s fake Arabic accent for Dan Rather’s Saddam Hussein interview was meant to provide “a voice compatible with the piece,” says a CBS News spokeswoman. She tells Elizabeth ...

Amazon has applied for a patent for an audio system that detects the accent of a speaker and changes it to the accent of the listener, perhaps helping eliminate communication barriers in many ...

Thus spoke my Lebanese-born cousin when I made the fatal mistake of saying the word for chicken in fus-ha, or formal Arabic, rather than in the Levantine dialect. Though this happened six years ago, ...

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