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Amazon’s Alexa will mimic the voice of your dead relatives
New technology allows voice assistant to impersonate people with just a short recording
By James Titcomb 23 June 2022 1:45pm

Amazon’s Alexa will be able to resurrect the voices of dead relatives, allowing users to feel as if they are speaking to lost ones beyond the grave.

The company revealed that it was working on technology that would allow its voice assistant to impersonate people with a recording of somebody’s voice less than a minute long.

It displayed the feature allowing the synthetic voice of a deceased grandmother to read to her grandson. In a video displaying the technology, a child asked “Alexa, can grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz?”.

The smart speaker acknowledged the request in its synthetic computer-generated voice before switching to a replica of the grandmother’s voice.

Amazon did not say when it expects to release the feature or whether it plans to restrict how it is used.