{"id":1527367,"date":"2022-06-23T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527367"},"modified":"2022-06-23T20:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:04:28","slug":"amazon-showcases-technology-transforming-alexas-voice-into-your-deceased-loved-ones-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-showcases-technology-transforming-alexas-voice-into-your-deceased-loved-ones-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Showcases Technology Transforming Alexa\u2019s Voice Into Your Deceased Loved Ones\u2019 Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-showcases-technology-transforming-alexas-voice-into-your-deceased-loved-ones-voice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527367&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Listening to your deceased mother read \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d to your sons and daughters may soon become a reality thanks to Amazon\u2019s Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>During the multinational technology and e-commerce company\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=22cb24-sGhg\">MARS conference<\/a> in Las Vegas, Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad unveiled the virtual assistant technology\u2019s latest feature. Instead of Alexa\u2019s so-called normal voice reciting the words of your favorite novel, now her voice can transform into that of a loved one who recently passed away reading your favorite bedtime story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are unquestionably living in the golden era of AI,\u201d Prasad said. \u201cWhere our dreams and science fiction are becoming a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prasad paused for a moment while a video appeared of a young child in his bedroom talking to Alexa, who has a panda bear\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlexa,\u201d the boy said. \u201cCan grandma finish reading me \u2018The Wizard of Oz\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK,\u201d Alexa responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alexa immediately turns her voice into the boy\u2019s grandmother\u2019s and reads the excerpt where Oz reminds the Lion to have courage as long as he has confidence in himself.<\/p>\n<p>Prasad tells the audience that through this feature, Alexa will enable \u201clasting personal relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The technology makes those relationships happen by producing a high-quality voice recording in less than a minute versus hours of recording in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>He said the company made it happen by framing the problem as a voice conversion task rather than generating speech.<\/p>\n<p>As the words \u201cHuman-like empathy\u201d slowly zoomed in on a giant screen behind Prasad, he said \u201ccompanionship relationship\u201d surprised him the most about Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this companionship role, human attributes of empathy and affect are key for building trust,\u201d he said. \u201cThese attributes have become even more important in these times of the ongoing pandemic when so many of us have lost someone we love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s annual re:MARS conference, an acronym for \u201cMachine learning, Automation, Robots, and Space,\u201d showcases leaders and technologists who are bringing the future of artificial intelligence to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile AI can\u2019t eliminate that pain of loss, it can definitely make their memories last,\u201d Prasad said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to your deceased mother read \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d to your sons and daughters may soon become a reality thanks to Amazon\u2019s Alexa. During the multinational technology and e-commerce company\u2019s annual MARS conference in Las Vegas, Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad unveiled the virtual assistant technology\u2019s latest feature. Instead of Alexa\u2019s so-called normal voice &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1527380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}