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04-29-2017, 06:40 AM
Amazon wants to make Alexa sound like your human friends
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Alexa is always there for those of us with Amazon's AI-enabled speakers, but when she speaks, sometimes it's hard to tell that she really cares.*
We're **t saying we need to all fall in love with our smart assistants, Her-style, but hearing a little bit more warmth in Alexa's automated responses could make the human-AI overlord relationship so much better. Or, you k**w, just make us more comfortable allowing a sophisticated AI system to learn just about everything there is to k**w about us.
Fortunately, Amazon has heard our cries for machine validation, and the company is finally giving Alexa the capability to speak like the true AI friend she is. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/28/alexa-update-voice-whisper/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Alexa is always there for those of us with Amazon's AI-enabled speakers, but when she speaks, sometimes it's hard to tell that she really cares.*
We're **t saying we need to all fall in love with our smart assistants, Her-style, but hearing a little bit more warmth in Alexa's automated responses could make the human-AI overlord relationship so much better. Or, you k**w, just make us more comfortable allowing a sophisticated AI system to learn just about everything there is to k**w about us.
Fortunately, Amazon has heard our cries for machine validation, and the company is finally giving Alexa the capability to speak like the true AI friend she is. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/28/alexa-update-voice-whisper/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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