Amazon's head scientist for Alexa said its voice-changing capability can help users remember the loved ones they lost to COVID-19.

Imagine a deceased loved one’s voice coming out of this cute, cuddly Alexa speaker in the hallway. Photo: Victoria Song / Gizmodo Those weird “loved ones come back from the dead to visit you ...

Alexa will have the ability to mimic a voice – even your dead relative's – by using just minute of audio and learning from it.

But along with those new capabilities, said Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services, Dave Limp, Amazon would use some user voice interactions with Alexa to train its AI model.

Since launching in 2014, Alexa has grown far beyond its original role as a simple voice assistant for music and reminders. With the rollout of Alexa Plus and new AI-powered tools, it's now a capable ...

Amazon revealed that it has developed a way for its Alexa voice assistant to replicate the speech of a dead relative.

For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that’s vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.

“The way we made it happen is by framing the problem as a voice conversion task and not a speech generation path. We are unquestionably living in the golden era of AI, where our dreams and ...