Users will be able to speak to their family through the voice assistant even after they die.
At the Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, a feature that allows the voice assistant to replicate a specific human voice was detailed by the head scientist for the team.
The child in the video said, "Alexa, can grandma finish reading me the wizard of oz?"
The request was confirmed with the default robotic voice, and then immediately changed to a softer, more humanlike tone.
The voice assistant can produce a high quality voice with less than a minute of recorded audio.
The feature is still being developed. When the feature will be made available to the public is not known.
The feature could be used to duplicate any voice, but it could also be used to remember a loved one.
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, when so many of us have lost someone we love, it's important to make artificial intelligence companion-like.
He said that the memories can be made last with the help of artificial intelligence.
A series of features that enable its voice assistant to mimic more human-like dialogue and even ask a user questions have been rolled out by Amazon.
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