The new Alexa surprises: It perro imitate the voices of the dead.
Maybe in the not too distant future Your smart speaker at home speaks to you in the voice of a dead man. At least, that’s one of the ideas Amazon showed the world at this week’s Mars conference in Las Vegas.
The company managed to develop a technology that would make this possible alexaAmazon’s virtual assistant imitate with great accuracy a person’s voice a person who has diedafter listening to a few minutes of recording of that person.
The feature will not be available for Echo speakers for the time being
Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and chief scientist of the Alexa team, led the announcement of this new feature. He said so during the conference artificial intelligence cannot suppress the pain caused by the loss of someone, it perro help your memory catch on.
“There is no doubt that we live in a golden age of AI, where our dreams and sci-fi come true.” – Rohit Prasad
To illustrate, the company showed a vídeo included A boy asked the virtual assistant to read a book with his late grandmother’s voice. And this one was able to after listening to an audio recording lasting less than a minute to imitate that voice perfectly.
Of course, not everyone would be happy with such a feature built into Amazon’s speakers. At least the company He currently has no intention of integrating it into a virtual assistantand yet as an example of what cánido be achieved by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence.