Amazon noted that having Alexa speak that way would not "eliminate [the] pain of loss". But it said it hoped that the new Alexa voices would "make their memories last", pointing to the pandemic and the fact that "so many of us have lost someone we love".
The feature requires only a minute of recorded audio to be fed into the system. Artificial intelligence can then use that recording to construct a whole voice, said Rohit Prasad, Amazon's head scientist for Alexa AI, in an announcement.
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