Samuel L. Jackson's voice reaches Alexa
Alexa will soon be able to hit you with a little nostalgia and speak to you in the voice of a loved one. A new update for an AI device that essentially acts as a virtual assistant was announced at Amazon's annual "re: Mars" conference on Wednesday. According to the company, Alexa's new feature "enables lasting personal relationships."
For example, if someone asks Alexa to read the story in the voice of her grandmother, she can. According to Alexa AI's Senior Vice President and Head Scientist at Amazon Rohit Prasad, she can use a short recording of someone's voice to learn to imitate it. In a video played at the
event, the boy asked Alexa to have her grandmother finish reading The Wizard of Oz.
Alexa becomes a companion after losing a loved one during a pandemic, especially the ability to empathize like a human. It will help. "AI can't get rid of the pain of loss, but it can sustain those relationships."
Create this feature To that end, Amazon "needed to learn to produce high-quality audio with less than a minute of recording time in the studio," Prasad said. "The way we did that is to frame the problem as a speech conversion task rather than a speech generation path."
In 2019, Amazon announced that Alexa was Samuel L. Jackson's . Announced that they have the ability to adopt public voices such asrecognizable voices – use recordings with their consent By doing so, the star serves as a baseline for additional computer-generated phrases.
Another new update announced at the event is "Conversation Mode". This means you don't have to say "Hey Alexa" to continue the conversation with your device. Just say it once and you can continue to ask and request Alexa.
According to Prasad, Alexa also has human-like reasoning. That is, the ability to use the short-term context currently available and the long-term memory accumulated over many years of experience. For example, if she asks to remind her about the Super Bowl, she not only looks up the date and time, but also makes sure it's in your timezone and sets a reminder 10 minutes before the game. ..
Another example: Alexa has an intuition about your routine and will find that you request that the lights be turned on or off at the same time each day.
She basically thinks before talking. If someone tells Alexa that she doesn't want to buy flowers for her wife, she will guess a romantic relationship and suggest buying a red rose, Prasad said.
"We are definitely living in the golden age of AI, and dreams and science fiction novels are becoming a reality," Prasad said.
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Caitlin O'Kane is a digital content producer that covers the trend stories of CBS News and its leading news brandTheUplift.
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