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.