According to the company, the new emotional ability will be relevant to skills in the gaming and sports categories. The users will be able to hear Alexa respond in a way that is more suitable for a particular type of content such as news and music. “Speaking styles are curated text-to-speech voices designed to create a more delightful customer experience for specific content. For example, the news speaking style makes Alexa’s voice sound similar to what you hear from TV news anchors and radio hosts.”, said the company. The company also said that the Alexa emotions make use of Neural TTS (NTTS) technology, the text-to-speech technology allows it to enable more natural-sounding speech. For instance, it responds in a happy or excited tone when the user answers a question correctly or wins a game. Whereas it responds in a disappointment or empathetic tone when the user loses a game. In the US the users will be able to enable 2 different speaking styles for news and in Australia, the users can enable a specific news speaking style. The company says that news and music speaking styles modifies the voice of Alexa as per the respective content being delivered by varying aspects of speech like pitch. She would be able to know on which word it has to emphasize more as well the timing of pauses. For the latest gadget and tech news, and gadget reviews, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. For newest tech & gadget videos subscribe to our YouTube Channel. You can also stay up to date using the Gadget Bridge Android App.
