Enlarge / The 4th-gen Amazon Echo Dot sensible speaker. (credit score: Amazon)
Amazon is determining make its Alexa voice assistant deepfake the voice of anybody, useless or alive, with only a quick recording. The corporate demoed the function at its re:Mars convention in Las Vegas on Wednesday, utilizing the emotional trauma of the continued pandemic and grief to promote curiosity.
Amazon’s re:Mars focuses on synthetic intelligence, machine studying, robotics, and different rising applied sciences, with technical consultants and business leaders taking the stage. Throughout the second-day keynote, Rohit Prasad, senior vice chairman and head scientist of Alexa AI at Amazon, confirmed off a function being developed for Alexa.
Within the demo, a baby asks Alexa, “Can grandma end studying me Wizard of Oz?” Alexa responds, “Okay,” in her typical effeminate, robotic voice. However subsequent, the voice of the kid’s grandma comes out of the speaker to learn L. Frank Baum’s story.
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