If you love your Alexa, but wish she dropped F-bombs more often, get ready for later this year when Samuel L. Jackson will be added as an alternative voice… available in both clean and explicit versions.
Amazon is using new technology to give Alexa smoother, more natural-sounding speech patterns meaning this should sound like Sam Jackson, not a Sam Jackson robot.
Initial pricing this year will be 99 cents or $4.99 if you buy it after 2019. Amazon says more celebrities are coming in 2020, but there’s no word who yet.
Amazon is also rolling out multilingual modes for households where more than one language is spoken including English/Spanish in the US, English/French in Canada, and English/Hindi in India. There will also be a “frustration detection” feature that’ll determine when you’re getting frustrated with Alexa screwing up your requests, and try to apologize.
Also, I just want this thing to spew Sam Jackson movie quotes at me all day.
