Hey ChatGPT — you talking to me? If Siri and Alexa tend to misunderstand a lot of your requests, it could be that accent. A new survey suggests the distinct intonations of folks from New York City, ...

LONDON -- Alexa, Amazon's personal assistant, is going global. The company debuted her British and German accents as it announced that the Echo -- the speaker/microphone connected to Alexa -- will be ...

Two scientists at Amazon used artificial intelligence to help them make Alexa Irish. The team trained Alexa on accents generated by text-to-speech models. This then helped them identify distinctive ...

Smart speakers (and the virtual assistants they house) offer voice control for so many connected devices it's hard to keep count. Those audio gadgets can also assist with a range of questions -- that ...

Two data scientists who created an Irish accent for Amazon's Alexa say that text-to-speech systems powered by artificial intelligence shifted how the team approaches the creation of different voice ...