Amazon Alexa includes its voice feature, users will also be able to listen to Amitabh Bachchan’s voice, alarm and weather updates
New Delhi, August 19 (IANS)| Amazon on Thursday announced that India’s first celebrity voice feature will be available on Alexa with megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Users in India can add their amazing voice to their Alexa experience on Echo devices for an introductory price. They can get this facility for one year for Rs 149. Users can start shopping by pressing the mic icon on the Amazon Shopping app (Android only) by saying Alexa, Amitabh Bachchan my introduction and interacting with Bachchan’s voice using the wake word ‘Amit ji’.
The company said the celebrity experience includes material handpicked by Bachchan from his life stories, poems by his father, tongue twisters, motivational quotes and more. Bachchan said, “Working with Amazon to introduce your voice on Alexa is a new experience in bringing together the magic of voice technology and artistic creativity. I am excited that my well wishers can now interact with me through this new medium.
Apart from this unique and entertaining content, customers can ask for music, set alarms and get weather updates in Bachchan’s signature style. To create the world’s first bilingual celebrity voice, we need to invent and re-invent almost every element of speech science – wake words, speech recognition, neural text-to-speech and more, said Puneesh Kumar, country leader for Alexa. Is. Amazon Alexa announced a partnership with Bachchan in September last year to create a unique voice experience for its Indian fans. Alexa in the US already has the voices of many celebrities like Samuel L Jackson, but this is the first time that an Indian Alexa has got the voice of a Bollywood celebrity.
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