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Feature intended to ‘make memories last’, especially after so many people died in pandemic, company says
Alexa will be able to start speaking with the voices of the dead, Amazon has said.
The voice assistant will be able to channel dead people and speak as they would, the company said. The feature will arrive in a forthcoming update.
Amazon noted that having Alexa speak that way would not “eliminate [the] pain of loss”. But it said it hoped that the new Alexa voices would “make their memories last”, pointing to the pandemic and the fact that “so many of us have lost someone we love”.
The feature requires only a minute of recorded audio to be fed into the system. Artificial intelligence can then use that recording to construct a whole voice, said Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s head scientist for Alexa AI, in an announcement.
Alexa will be able to start speaking with the voices of the dead, Amazon has said.
The voice assistant will be able to channel dead people and speak as they would, the company said. The feature will arrive in a forthcoming update.
Amazon noted that having Alexa speak that way would not “eliminate [the] pain of loss”. But it said it hoped that the new Alexa voices would “make their memories last”, pointing to the pandemic and the fact that “so many of us have lost someone we love”.
The feature requires only a minute of recorded audio to be fed into the system. Artificial intelligence can then use that recording to construct a whole voice, said Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s head scientist for Alexa AI, in an announcement.
Alexa can channel the voices of the dead, Amazon says
Feature intended to ‘make memories last’, especially after so many people died in pandemic, company says
www.independent.co.uk