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Perhaps one of the most recognizable (and accidentallytriggered) voices in America, Amazon’s Alexa sounds like an A.I. With its broken phrasing, eerie calm, and uncanny approximation of gentle consumerism, Alexa can be heard in households from sea to shining sea, ordering toilet paper, agreeing to play the new Maroon 5, and laughing at inappropriate times.
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Given how tech-forward Amazon’s business model has become, moving from the world’s largest book retailer to one of the world’s great purveyors of labor abuses, it would be fair to assume that Alexa isn’t a real person. Many probably believe it is an ethereal, amorphous digital specter that haunts every house with an Alexa unit by responding to people on TV that happen to utter its name. But, according to Brad Stone, author of the upcoming
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In an excerpt from his upcoming book Amazon Unbound, journalist Brad Stone announced that the famous voice is that of Nina Rolle, a voice actress and singer based in Colorado. Characteristically secretive, Amazon has never revealed the name of the voice artist behind Alexa. I learned her identity after canvasing the professional voice-over community: Boulder, Colorado-based voice actress and singer Nina Rolle, the author wrote in the selection published to Wired. Her professional website contains links to old radio ads for products such as Mott’s Apple Juice and the Volkswagen Passat and the warm timbre of Alexa’s voice is unmistakable, he said. Rolle said she wasn’t allowed to talk to me when I reached her on the phone in February 2021. When I asked Amazon to speak with her, they declined.
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