The new souped-up Alexa voice assistant, Alexa Plus, is scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks in an early access preview.

Amazon expands Alexa Fund with five new AI areas, backing startups in robotics, media, and specialised agents to support its ...

Now, Amazon has just introduced its new "foundation" AI voice model called Nova Sonic. And it really makes Alexa sound like ...

AI-powered personal assistants have become essential in our fast-paced lives, helping us manage tasks, control smart devices, ...

Amazon has unveiled a new AI voice model, Nova Sonic, the company claims is competitive with frontier voice models from ...

Currently, the model supports multiple expressive voices, both masculine and feminine, in American and British English.

A conversation with Daniel Rausch, Amazon’s vice president of Alexa and Echo, recorded at the company’s Seattle headquarters.

Alexa Plus can also summarize uploaded documents at launch, but Amazon’s early access page notes that it’s still working on ...

Amazon started the Alexa Fund in 2015 to back early-stage voice startups. With the advent of large language models and Amazon launching Gen AI-powered Alexa+, along with a family of multimodal AI ...

The Nova Sonic voice AI model can respond to the speaker’s words, as well as their tone, inflection, and pacing.

Making the biggest splash of all was Amazon, which blew everyone away (myself included) with its AI-revamped Alexa during a late-February event in New York. With none other than Panos Panay ...

Alexa users also have a setting called “Don’t save recordings”, which, if enabled, deletes cloud recordings once they’re ...