When a customer asks Alexa to play “Hey Jude”, and Alexa responds, “Playing 'Hey Jude' by the Beatles,” that response is generated by a text-to-speech (TTS) ...

A text-to-speech system, which converts written text into synthesized speech, is what allows Alexa to respond verbally to requests or commands. Through a ...

At next week’s Interspeech, the largest conference on the science and technology of spoken-language processing, Alexa researchers have 16 papers, which span ...

Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Amazon Echo, so in a talk I gave yesterday at the Web Summit in Lisbon, I looked at how far Alexa has ...

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 locales in ...

Editor's Note: The Alexa team recently introduced a new longform speaking style so Alexa sounds more natural when reading long pieces of content, like this ...

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. ...

Today in Seattle, Dave Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president for devices, unveiled the latest lineup of products and services from his organization. During ...

Alexa is the voice activated digital assistant powering devices like Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo ...

Singing synthesis — the use of computer models to synthesize a human singing voice — has been studied since the 1950s. Like the related field of ...