In 2019, Alexa launched multilingual mode for US English and US Spanish, which lets customers address Alexa in either language and receive responses in that language....
At this year’s Interspeech, the Amazon text-to-speech team presented two new papers about controlling prosody — the rhythm, emphasis, melody, duration, and loudness of speech — in speech...
Interspeech is a technical conference focused on speech processing and application, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories...
Interspeech is a technical conference focused on speech processing and application, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories...
Singing synthesis — the use of computer models to synthesize a human singing voice — has been studied since the 1950s. Like the related field of...
In late September, Amazon announced the latest devices and services slated for release to Alexa customers during its annual Devices event. The announcements included new technology...
Today in Seattle, Dave Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president for devices, unveiled the latest lineup of products and services from his organization. During the presentation, Rohit...
Text-to-speech (TTS) systems, like Alexa’s or the ones available to Amazon Web Services customers through Amazon Polly, convert text into synthetic speech. In recent years, most...
In 2018, Amazon launched a feature in the U.S. that enables Alexa to whisper back when whispered to, a feature that was expanded to all Alexa...