It's coming for your car, too. Amazon's Alexa voice assistant will soon be "Hey Alexa" ready through the car infotainment system -- a territory Apple CarPlay and Android Auto have inhabited for years.

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Uncovering the Profiling Practices of Voice Assistants, where they looked into Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant to try and figure out just how much these smart voice ...

On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech. Amazon claims that Sonic’s performance is ...

The company says voice recordings will be processed in the cloud and deleted afterward. From what we've learned, this change is in preparation for Amazon's launch of its huge AI upgrade to Alexa ...

Learn More Amazon is best known as an e-commerce giant and then somewhere perhaps slightly further down the list of notable offerings is its Alexa AI voice assistant product, which just got a big ...

Amazon started the Alexa Fund in 2015 to back early-stage voice startups. With the advent of large language models and Amazon launching Gen AI-powered Alexa+, along with a family of multimodal AI ...

Starting Mar.28th, Alexa Echo users won't be able to block their devices from sending all voice recordings to Amazon for analysis. Just before this privacy change, over 2,000 US adults were ...

Nova Sonic marks a major leap over AI voice models like those driving Amazon Alexa and Apple's Siri. Rohit Prasad, Amazon's Senior Vice President and Head Scientist of AGI, disclosed that elements ...

Alternatively, you can change the voice within the Alexa app. Note that Amazon doesn’t call the voice options male or female; rather 1 or 2, with this number following the various accents also ...

Once in the cloud, recordings can be deleted or saved. Saved recordings are used for Amazon's Voice ID feature, which distinguishes between speakers in the same household and aims to provide a ...

Saved recordings are used for Amazon’s Voice ID feature, which distinguishes between speakers in the same household and aims to provide a personalised experience. Alexa users also have a setting ...