Polly’s speaking style voices, which are available for a few voices, and 10 new Polly voices, are also available for developers to build Alexa skills.
(I’ll be honest: the only obvious differences I heard between the two samples Amazon provided were longer pauses between sentences in the second sample).Īmazon also is adding its news and conversational speaking styles for the Matthew and Joanna voices from Amazon Polly, its neural network-based text-to-speech AWS service, and is adding its news speaking style to Lupe, its US Spanish voice. Here’s the usual “neutral” Alexa speaking style.
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It follows last year’s release of new speaking styles for news and music content and a November update that allows Alexa to seem “disappointed” or “excited.”
The longform speaking style is available for US developers who want a reading voice that sounds more natural when reading long pieces of content, like articles or podcasts.Īmazon says the longform style is “powered by a deep-learning text-to-speech model,” and allows Alexa-voiced devices to speak with more natural conversational pauses. So, it'll be interesting to see how well this feature works going forward.Amazon is introducing a new speaking style for Alexa and adding some speaking styles for other AI voices, the company said today. In other words, Alexa will only respond to requests it's definitely recognised - and not just background noise. Also, Alexa may not be confident you're speaking to it if it "detects that speech was background noise or that the intent of the speech was not clear". Follow-Up Mode also works for other questions, smart home commands, music requests, and anything else you usually ask Alexa.Īmazon warns that the feature will not work when your Echo device is playing music, books, or you're on a call through the device. Just say it once, and it'll recognise who you are asking about each time. That means you don't have to say "President" in each of your additional questions. Also, Alexa will recognise the subject of your question. Notice you don't need to say "Alexa" for any of the follow-up questions. Here's a string of questions you can ask, as an example: Scroll down to Follow-Up Mode and use the toggle to turn it on.Now choose the device you want to enable the feature on.Ask Alexa follow-up questions without repeating the wake word.Select 'Follow-Up Mode' and then toggle it on.Select the Echo device you want to enable the feature on.Open the latest version of the Alexa mobile app.
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The blue indicator light on your Echo device will continue shining for about five seconds to allow additional requests.
After switching it on, ask Alexa a question or say a command. Amazon Alexa review: What is Alexa and what can Amazon Echo do?.Amazon's Alexa is laughing without prompting and freaking people out.The feature is called " Follow-Up Mode," and when it's turned on, you can make more requests without having to repeat the "Alexa" wake word.īefore 'Follow-Up Mode' existed you had to say the wake word every time. You couldn't say, "Alexa, what's the weather like tomorrow," then wait, and add, "how about tomorrow?" You had to say, "Alexa, how about tomorrow?" Thankfully, there's a feature that takes away this frustration. Except, you have to keep saying your wake word, and that can get annoying pretty quickly. (Pocket-lint) - If you have an Echo speaker or Echo Show smart display, there's a good chance you've run into a situation where you've wanted to follow up your previous question with another.
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