Tag: voice

• Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices

  April 7, 2024

  We recognize that generating speech that resembles people’s voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year. We are engaging with U.S. https://openai.com/blog/navigating-the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-synthetic-voices more ›

• From HAL 9000 to Westworld’s Dolores: the pop culture robots that influenced smart voice assistants

  June 22, 2020

  Last year, nearly one third of Australian adults owned a smart speaker device allowing them to call on “Alexa” or “Siri”. Now, with more time spent indoors due to COVID-19,… more ›

• More information about our processes to safeguard speech data

  July 12, 2019

  We’re focused on building products that work for everyone, and as part of this, we invest significant resources to ensure that our speech technology works for a wide variety of… more ›

• Amazon’s VP of Alexa Devices on Working in Voice Technology, Taking Risks, and Alexa’s Hidden Tricks

  May 24, 2019

  Let’s say you want to be a part of building something great in your career—something people can tangibly benefit from, something no one else has thought of, and something you… more ›

• Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer

  February 19, 2019

  If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen,… more ›