Amazon launched India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the country’s biggest movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, as the company seeks to attract more users to the world’s second most populous country. The company, which introduced Samuel Jackson’s voice on Alexa in the US in 2019, said users in India could add the voice of … Read more
Rohit Prasad, Vice President and Senior Scientist, Amazon Alexa Team. When Amazon’s first Alexa-enabled smart speaker hit the market in 2014, it was a novelty: a voice-activated interface for processing natural language that could perform a number of simple tasks. Fast forward to today, and the internet connected platform has rapidly expanded and become its … Read more
During a hilarious game by Hey Robot on The Tonight Show earlier this week, comedian John Oliver posed a few timely and less funny questions on Amazon’s Alexa. Oliver, host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” played with “Tonight” host Jimmy Fallon (above). The two giggled as they tried to get Alexa to say words like … Read more