Amazon’s latest Alexa feature can mimic the voice of a dead person | USA TODAY

Amazon's digital assistant Alexa has a new feature on the way that provides the ability to impersonate the voice of a deceased relative.
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During the conference, Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa AI at Amazon, demonstrated one way to leverage the voice assistant by mimicking the voice of a dead relative.

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11 comments

  1. I already have too many voices in my head talking to the grave might not be the best one… This is Icky, I haven’t even stuffed my grandmother yet still looking for a taxidermist.

    1. @ᏴᏞᎯᏟᏦ ᏩᎾᏦᏌ ᎦᎦᏓᏩᎾᎠ Give me a break, just because you cannot see stupid for yourself doesn’t mean nobody else can… I hope you don’t own a gun… LOL

  2. This may seem a bit creepy at first but I kinda like this. The idea of it is actually really cool

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