Amazon teaches voice assistant Alexa to imitate the voices of dead people

The Amazon Alexa voice assistant has received a new feature - the ability to imitate the voice of any person, including the deceased.

How it works?

To imitate someone's voice, Alexa needs less than a minute of recorded audio - this can be a video, a voice message, etc. This feature is currently under development. Amazon hasn't said when it will go public.

At the annual Re:MARS conference, Alexa Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist Rohit Prasad showed a video demonstrating how Alexa works. On it, the child asks to read a bedtime story in the voice of a deceased grandmother. Prasad stressed that the humanization of artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important "during the pandemic, when many of us have lost someone we loved."

“AI cannot eliminate this pain of loss, but it is definitely able to prolong the memory of them”

Source: YouTube