Oxford Business School launches voice agent SOFIA for Business
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The University of Oxford's Saïd Business School announced the voice agent SOFIA for Business at the Oxford Startup Forum (OSEF), turning years of female founder interview research accumulated by the Inspiring Female Founders programme into a conversational agent. The agent is built on ElevenLabs' ElevenAgents. ElevenLabs said the project is supported through its Impact Program × Professors, a programme that provides university educators such as Ozcan with free access to ElevenLabs tools.
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Oxford Saïd Business School's Inspiring Female Founders initiative has turned its interview research into SOFIA for Business, a voice agent built on ElevenAgents and supported by the ElevenLabs Impact Program, launched at the Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum. SOFIA lets founders learn from previously interviewed women and also interviews new founders itself, adding each consented conversation to the research. It was co-founded by Pinar Ozcan, Amanda Slavin and Arabella Nyffenegger, with ElevenLabs providing free tool access through its Impact Program × Professors.
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