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The automatic conversion of text to speech is crucial to Alexa: it’s how Alexa communicates with customers. The models developed by the Amazon Text-to-Speech group are...
Amazon researchers have more than 50 papers at this year’s International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). A plurality of them are on automatic...
Voice agents like Alexa often have a variety of different speech synthesizers, which differ in attributes such as expressivity, personality, language, and speaking style. The machine...
The Arabic version of Alexa launched in December 2021, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and like all new Alexa languages,...
In June, Alexa announced a new feature called Reading Sidekick, which helps kids grow into confident readers by taking turns reading with Alexa, while Alexa provides encouragement...
At ICASSP 2021, the Amazon text-to-speech team presented two new papers about synthesizing speech from text with contextually appropriate prosody — the rhythm, emphasis, melody, duration, and loudness...
With services like Alexa, which use synthesized speech for output, text normalization (TN) is usually the first step in the process of text-to-speech conversion. TN takes raw text...
The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) starts next week, and as Alexa principal research scientist Ariya Rastrow explained last year, it casts a...
Over the past decade, the tech industry in Africa has witnessed explosive growth. According to Briter Bridges, the number of tech hubs on the continent has...
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