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Amazon's Alexa has a new celebrity voice...Samuel L. Jackson.
Amazon unveiled a lineup of new Alexa-powered products on Wednesday extending from homes and cars to wearable devices, and a celebrity voice option for the popular digital assistant.
Alexa has been tweaked using machine learning to speak more like a person, and will offer celebrity voices — with the first being star actor Samuel L. Jackson.
In a product launch in Seattle, Washington, Alexa was the star as Amazon sought to widen the reach of its digital assistant powered by artificial intelligence amid a battle with rivals from Google, Apple, Microsoft and others.
Amazon began rolling out bilingual capabilities for Alexa, enabling it to perform in Spanish as well as English in the US; French along with English in Canada, and Hindi along with English in india, according to vice president of devices and services Dave Limp.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/more-chores-for-amazons-alexa-and-a-new-celebrity-voice/
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From the CNN article:
“But Jackson wouldn't be who he is if he weren't a little explicit, right? Don't worry. Amazon is leaning into the actor's essence. That's probably why this new feature is rated mature.
Users can choose whether or not they would like Jackson to use explicit language. And it's OK if they change their minds later. They can just head over to the settings menu of the Alexa app to select between clean and explicit content.”
I am sooo getting SLJ when it’s available.