As Amazon’s Alexa completes 5 years in India, the corporate on Thursday launched a brand new male voice choice for Alexa’s responses.
With this, Indian customers will be capable of swap between Alexa’s authentic voice and a brand new masculine-sounding voice.
“Over the previous 5 years, our goal has been to construct Alexa from India and for India, and I really consider that our journey is synonymous to the evolution of ambient computing within the nation. As we glance forward, our focus stays on bringing to life newer voice, contact, movement and vison-enabled experiences for consuming leisure, finishing duties, and accessing data”, Dilip R.S., Nation Supervisor for Alexa, Amazon India, mentioned in a press release.
The brand new voice can reply in each English and Hindi languages.
The corporate mentioned that customers can change Alexa’s voice by saying “Alexa, change your voice” on the Echo gadget or from the Alexa app by going to particular person gadget settings and deciding on Alexa’s voice.
Customers will be capable of use any of the wake phrases — together with Alexa, Echo, Pc and Amazon to ask questions in English, Hindi and Hinglish.
Furthermore, the corporate talked about that, in 2022, requests to Alexa for music elevated by virtually 53 per cent, with clients streaming songs by way of suppliers equivalent to Amazon Prime Music, Spotify, JioSaavn and Apple Music.
Requests to Alexa for controlling sensible house home equipment elevated by 515 per cent.
Additional, the corporate revealed that customers’ love for interacting with Alexa is mirrored within the questions equivalent to “Alexa, how are you” (31,680 occasions per day), and “Alexa, I like you” (21,600 occasions per day), a rise of 214 per cent and 275 per cent respectively.
–IANS
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