Alexa has a new masculine-sounding voice option, like Siri and Google Assistant -- but where did Amazon come up with Ziggy?

Fox Business Briefs: Amazon is rolling out new tools to give users control over the stored voice recordings from their Alexa devices, amid a range of different privacy-related concerns.

In 2019, Amazon announced Alexa had the ability to adopt the voices of public figures – such as Samuel L. Jackson's recognizable voice – with their consent, by using recordings the stars offer ...

Alexa: update! New features are coming Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant, including a new, more natural-sounding voice and celebrity voice options, starting with Samuel L. Jackson.

Amazon's foray into personalized Alexa voices may struggle most with the uncanny valley effect — recreating a voice that is so similar to a loved one's but isn't quite right, which leads to ...

Amazon’s Alexa will no longer sound like Samuel L. Jackson and Melissa McCarthy. The e-commerce giant has stopped sales of celebrity “personalities” for Alexa. In a note on the product pages ...

Amazon has long used recognizable voices, such as the real voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Melissa McCarthy and Shaquille O’Neal, to voice Alexa.

Amazon subsequently quintupled the amount of explicit phrases for Jackson’s Alexa voice option, based on customer demand, and later raised the price to $4.99.

We swear, using Samuel L. Jackson to voice Alexa is Amazon’s best new idea by Kurt Schlosser on September 25, 2019 at 3:24 pm Share 255 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

LISBON–Amazon’s vision for the future of Alexa is less and less R2-D2 and more and more C-3PO. As one of the company’s senior executives explained in an onstage interview at the Web Summit ...

But for now, it means celebrity voices are leaving Alexa. The skills, which ranged in cost from $.99 to $4.99, are no longer available for purchase. If you purchased Melissa McCarthy or Shaquille ...