Overview

• Amazon researchers developed a technique to enable Alexa to speak with an Irish accent.
• The process is called voice disentanglement and involves understanding the complexities of speech like pitch, tone and accent.
• Advances in AI and technology have allowed progress in voice disentanglement, improving computer-generated speech.
• Digital assistants can now speak in multiple languages and accents more easily using text-to-speech models.
• Amazon's project let Alexa speak with an Irish accent, and they plan to apply the method to other accents and languages.