Amazon announces updates to Alexa: a new multilingual mode, celebrity voices for $0.99 each, starting with Samuel L. Jackson, frustration detection, and more
er, do you speak it? Max Read / @max_read : the predicted future: deepfake audio will be used to destroy public trust and empower authoritarians the actual future: deepfake audio will be used to make samuel l jackson yell at you until you order shampoo again https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : APPLE: We put an extra lens in the iPhone camera and our watch now stays on AMAZON: We built smart eyeglasses, smart earbuds, a smart ring, a sidewalk that senses everything, a surveillance system for dogs, a talking doorbell, an oven, and turned Alexa into Samuel L. JacksonMike Murphy / @mcwm : damn Alexa is soon going to be a narc the Alexa Education Skill API will tie into things like Coursera to allow parents to ask what homework their kid has that night, or how they did on tests (!!!!) https://twitter.com/... Mike Murphy / @mcwm : Alexa will apparently realize now when you're frustrated with her answers when she gets something wrong she says “I must have misheard” seems like a bad precedent to set for dudes to yell at a female voice pic.twitter.com/N7XuhOpcpp Owen Williams / @ow : Alexa, we forgot to add privacy features so now we're hackin 'em in https://twitter.com/...
Siri will soon offer Samuel L. Jackson's voice... Me: Siri, what's the weather? Siri: What country are you from? Me: What? What? Siri: What ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What? Me: What? Siri: English, motherf—er, do you speak it?
the predicted future: deepfake audio will be used to destroy public trust and empower authoritarians the actual future: deepfake audio will be used to make samuel l jackson yell at you until you order shampoo again https://twitter.com/...
APPLE: We put an extra lens in the iPhone camera and our watch now stays on AMAZON: We built smart eyeglasses, smart earbuds, a smart ring, a sidewalk that senses everything, a surveillance system for dogs, a talking doorbell, an oven, and turned Alexa into Samuel L. Jackson
damn Alexa is soon going to be a narc the Alexa Education Skill API will tie into things like Coursera to allow parents to ask what homework their kid has that night, or how they did on tests (!!!!) https://twitter.com/...
Alexa will apparently realize now when you're frustrated with her answers when she gets something wrong she says “I must have misheard” seems like a bad precedent to set for dudes to yell at a female voice pic.twitter.com/N7XuhOpcpp