I spoke to the AI avatar of a Leeds MP. How did it cope with my own Yorkshire accent?

Mark Sewards has launched a digital assistant but the results of my chat show the real deal have got nowt to worry about

As anyone with even a trace of a regional dialect who has had to pay a parking fine can attest, voice recognition services can struggle with accents. Now, people in Mark Sewards’ consistency are likely to find the same problem with his AI variant.

A new chatbot, billed as the first AI version of an MP, responds in Sewards’s voice with advice, support or by offering to pass on a message to his team – but only if it understands you.

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