Amazon.com Inc wants to give customers the chance to make Alexa, the company’s voice assistant, sound just like their grandmother — or anyone else.
The online retailer is developing a system to let Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, Amazon senior vice president Rohit Prasad said at a conference the company held in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
The goal is to “make the memories last” after “so many of us have lost someone we love” during the COVID-19 pandemic, Prasad said.
Amazon declined to say when it would roll out such a feature.
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