(Editor’s note: This article is the latest installment in a series by Amazon Science delving into the science behind products and services of companies in ...

Yang Liu, an Alexa AI principal scientist, and Ruhi Sarikaya, director of applied science, Alexa AI, have recently been named IEEE Fellows. The designation ...

Editor’s note: Alexa’s Live Translation feature will be discontinued on Oct. 31, 2023, but the innovations that enabled it have been adapted for deployment ...

Earlier this month at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling), we were honored to receive the best-paper award in the industry ...

For voice agents like Alexa, expanding into a new language has traditionally meant training a new natural-language-understanding model from scratch, an ...

One of the first things a voice agent like Alexa does when receiving a new instruction is to classify its intent — playing music, getting the weather, ...

Recently, the Alexa Text-to-Speech (TTS) team announced a new neural TTS technology that enables a multilingual model to use the same voice for Spanish and ...

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 ...

Oluwaseyi Feyisetan, a senior applied scientist who specializes in privacy research, was recently named to the research advisory board for the International ...

During the prototyping stages of the journey that brought Echo Show 10 to life, the design, engineering, and science teams behind it encountered a surprise: ...