Send this page to someone via emailYour Amazon Alexa may soon be able to replicate real, human voices — even those of your deceased loved ones. The update to Alexa’s system would allow the virtual assistant to mimic the voice of any person based on less than a minute of recording. The voice assistant continued to read the book in that same voice. On the current Alexa system, users can switch to celebrity voices like Samuel L. Jackson and Melissa McCarthy as their voice assistant — created through a mixture of studio recordings and AI. 0:40 Samuel L. Jackson among stars to provide voice to Amazon Alexa Samuel L. Jackson among stars to provide voice to Amazon Alexa – Sep 25, 2019AI re-creations of people’s voices have steadily increased in recent years and is sometimes used in film and TV.

Source: The Guardian June 24, 2022 17:53 UTC