Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, June 23rd, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of

audio. They say that they want to do this as a way to quote make the memories last

memories of deceased family members presumably which sounds cool I suppose but also

maybe a little creepy quoting Tech Crunch.

At its annual Re-Mar's conference today in Las Vegas,

Amazon Senior Vice President and Head Scientists for Alexa,

Rahit Prasad announced a spate of new and upcoming features for the company's smart assistant.

The most head-turning of the bunch was a potential new feature that can synthesize short audio clips into longer speech.

In the scenario presented at the event the voice of a deceased loved

one, a grandmother in this case, is used to record a grandson a bedtime story.

Prasad notes that using the new technology the company is able to accomplish some very impressive

audio output using just one minute of speech.

This required inventions where we had to learn to produce a high quality voice with less than a minute of

recording versus hours of recording in the studio, the executive notes. The way we

made it happen is by framing the problem as a voice conversion task and not a

speech generation path. We are unquestionably

living in the golden era of AI where our dreams and science fictions are

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