Amazon is working on giving Alexa the ability to mimic anyone's voice, dead or alive, from just one minute of audio
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:27 pm
Business Insider) Amazon is teaching Alexa to mimic anyone's voice, dead or alive, from just a one-minute recording of that voice.
Rohit Prasad, Amazon's head scientist for Alexa, said at a live event on Wednesday that his team has been instructing Alexa to pick up a voice from a short audio clip and convert it into longer audio output. Prasad was presenting at Amazon's re:Mars conference in Las Vegas.
He showed a short video of how people could use Alexa's voice-changing capability in real life. In the clip, a boy asks: "Alexa, can grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz?"
The smart speaker confirmed the request in its default chirpy voice, then transitioned to a less robotic voice that narrated an excerpt from the children's novel.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon- ... ons-2022-6
Of course, it had to be the Wizard of Oz.
Rohit Prasad, Amazon's head scientist for Alexa, said at a live event on Wednesday that his team has been instructing Alexa to pick up a voice from a short audio clip and convert it into longer audio output. Prasad was presenting at Amazon's re:Mars conference in Las Vegas.
He showed a short video of how people could use Alexa's voice-changing capability in real life. In the clip, a boy asks: "Alexa, can grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz?"
The smart speaker confirmed the request in its default chirpy voice, then transitioned to a less robotic voice that narrated an excerpt from the children's novel.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon- ... ons-2022-6
Of course, it had to be the Wizard of Oz.