Data scientists describe the arduous, AI-powered task of getting Amazon's Alexa to speak in an Irish lilt
, who described the Irish brogue to the Times as"a hard one" to master, were tasked with creating the accent for Amazon using a technique known as voice disentanglement.
Voice disentanglement is the pinpointing of aspects of speech like tone and intonation. Last year, Amazon scientists began toIn creating an Alexa that speaks Irish English, released in November, data scientists told the Times that hours of language training using the help of voice actors had been condensed because of AI, which now has the ability to mimic regional dialects and accents in numerous languages.
Using an already existing Alexa model that speaks in a British accent as a baseline, the data scientists trained it on the Irish accents provided by text-to-speech models as well as voice recordings, the Times reported. They later zeroed in and modified certain sounds — for example, emphasizing the"r" sounds in words much like an Irish person would — to create the voice that eventually accompanied Irish Alexa. Subscribe to push notifications
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