With Amazon’s official release of its French Canadian language option for Alexa on March 21, the results are now available for all to hear. He and a few thousand fellow Quebecers were enlisted to help Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa learn the finer points of Canadian French, from the distinctive accent to so-called “joual” expressions and the linguistic mishmash known as “Franglais.”“It was pretty surprising the things Alexa can understand, especially in Canadian French,” he said. “If Alexa is in (European) French and I ask it to ‘cancel le timer,’ it won’t understand,” he said. “If you ask a French person to say the name of an American song, you’ll clearly hear the French accent. He said the virtual assistant understands his normal accent perfectly, although he sometimes has to repeat himself when he tries out the stronger accent of his native Charlevoix region.

Source: thestar March 31, 2019 21:22 UTC