Alexa Digital Assistant will soon be able to read the news as a broadcaster

Monday 26 November 2018 20:45 The Economist, an Amazonian company, continues its work without reducing its capacity as a digital assistant Alexa. The improvements go beyond adding new features, but also improving the overall performance of the PDA. One of these improvements will radically change the way Alexa reads the news. Amazon.com said that Alexa's news will be close to how information is reported by professional broadcasters.

The news reporting style will be broadcast as information broadcaster for the Alexa PDA in two weeks. Even if the sound will remain unchanged, what will change is the way the words are pronounced and their layout, as do the broadcasters of new professionals.

Amazon.com surveys show that users prefer the usual Alexa style in the news. The company says this has become possible thanks to voice synthesis technology. This technique represents a big step forward in speech synthesis by using automated learning to quickly generate more expressive sounds.

The technology first divides the speech samples into distinct sounds called audios, then assembles them to form new words and phrases. Amazon created this narration by recording audio clips from real news channels. Automated learning was used to discover the methods used to read news broadcasters for texts.

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