Amazon’s Alexa now sounds more like a real assistant

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Amazon have released a set of commands that developers can use to make Alexa, the voice assistant currently found in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot, follow a more speech natural pattern. 

The way Alexa speaks at the moment sounds pretty human, but there are obvious ‘tells’ in the lack of intonation, pitch change and pause that give away that it’s an artificial voice. These new commands are designed to make her voice feel more human, report TechCrunch.

There are five commands: Whisper, Expletive Beeps, Sub, Emphasis, and Prosody. All of the commands are designed to frame a specific

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