https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/20/amazons-alexa-is-getting-a-more-natural-sounding-voice/ > In addition to getting a generative AI-powered upgrade, and the ability to continue conversations without again using the wakeword “Alexa,” Amazon’s voice assistant is going to gain a more natural-sounding voice. The company introduced today an updated text-to-speech engine that’s now more context-aware of the user’s emotions and the tone of your voice, which then allows Alexa to respond with a similar emotional variation in its ouptut. > The company demoed the new voice which offered a less robotic-sounding Alexa which included more expressiveness — something the company noted was powered by large transformers that were trained on different languages and accents.