Amazon feature has Alexa speaking in voice of late relative

Whether you like it or not, Amazon has a way to get its voice to speak in the voice of a dead person.

During the Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas, the feature was explained by a senior vice president and head scientist.

According to CNBC, engineers used artificial intelligence to create a way for its digital assistant to mimic a voice after just one minute of recorded audio of the person speaking.

A child is shown in a video saying, "Alexa, can grandma read me The Wizard of Oz?" After acknowledging the child's request in its usual voice, Amazon began speaking in a voice very similar to that of the child's grandmother. That's a dead granny.

Engineers are still working on improving what is essentially a deep fake feature, and Amazon won't say when it will be released so interested customers can get Grandad back up and running.

If you're raising the dead seems a bit much, you could also use the voice of someone living, such as your child, brother, sister, mom, dad, best friend, or yourself.

The feature could be used to keep the memory of a loved one who has passed away during the Pandemic.

He said that the memories can be made last with the help of artificial intelligence.

The feature is one step away from enabling people to have natural and meaningful conversations with the dead that include opinions and references to past events.

Amazon is trying to offer more natural voice experiences with the digital assistant with the introduction of Conversation Mode. Marry the voice of a dead relative with some personality data for Amazon's artificial intelligence to process, and science fiction could become fact.

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