Amazon’s Alexa to mimic deceased person’s voice using pre-recorded audio

Amazon is planning to come up with a way that will help Alexa voice assistant users to speak to their family members, even after they’ve died.

As per TechCrunch, the online retailer announced its plan about developing a system to let Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio during its annual re:Mars conference today in Las Vegas.

“This required inventions where we had to learn to produce a high-quality voice with less than a minute of recording versus hours of recording in the studio.The way we made it happen is by framing the problem as a voice conversion task and not a speech generation path.

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