{"id":141061,"date":"2022-06-24T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/amazons-alexa-will-soon-be-able-to-use-a-dead-persons-voice"},"modified":"2022-06-24T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:03:24","slug":"amazons-alexa-will-soon-be-able-to-use-a-dead-persons-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/amazons-alexa-will-soon-be-able-to-use-a-dead-persons-voice","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Alexa Will Soon be Able to Use a Dead Person\u2019s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazons-alexa-will-soon-be-able-to-use-a-dead-persons-voice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon introduced the technology at Amazon re: MARS 2022, its annual AI event centered around machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. Alexa AI head scientist Rohit Prasad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=22cb24-sGhg&t=3719s&ab_channel=AWSEvents\">referred<\/a> to the upcoming feature as a way to remember friends and family members who have passed away.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/22cb24-sGhg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile AI can\u2019t eliminate the pain of loss, it can definitely make their memories last,\u201d Prasad said.<\/p>\n<p>Prasad demonstrated the feature using a video of a child asking Alexa if his grandmother could finish reading him a story. In its regular Alexa voice, the smart speaker obliged; then the grandmother\u2019s voice took over as the child flipped through his own copy of <i>The Wizard of Oz<\/i>. Though of course there\u2019s no way for the viewer to know what the woman\u2019s real voice actually sounds like, the grandmother\u2019s synthesized voice admittedly sounded quite natural, speaking with the cadence of your average bedtime story reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon introduced the technology at Amazon re: MARS 2022, its annual AI event centered around machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. Alexa AI head scientist Rohit Prasad referred to the upcoming feature as a way to remember friends and family members who have passed away. \u201cWhile AI can\u2019t eliminate the pain of loss, it can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}