{"id":179412,"date":"2019-11-28T22:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1812143\/"},"modified":"2019-11-28T22:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:14:45","slug":"amazon-injects-emotion-into-alexas-cold-cold-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/28\/amazon-injects-emotion-into-alexas-cold-cold-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Injects Emotion Into Alexa\u2019s Cold, Cold Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/alexa-650x366.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"figcaption\">Speechcons (via Amazon)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Alexa, try that once more, with feeling.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developers can now enable Amazon&#8217;s digital assistant to respond with a happy\/excited or disappointed\/empathetic tone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone are the days when Alexa impassively played <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Greatest Showman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> soundtrack for the 88th time or expressed no judgement as you skipped another news story in the daily roundup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Emotional responses are particularly relevant to skills in the gaming and sports categories,&#8221; Amazon developer Catherine Gao wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/en-US\/blogs\/alexa\/alexa-skills-kit\/2019\/11\/new-alexa-emotions-and-speaking-styles\"  rel=\"noopener\">a blog announcement<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday&#8217;s launch allows programmers to inject two different speaking styles in the US: news and music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The news and music speaking styles tailor Alexa&#8217;s voice to the respective content being delivered by changing aspects of speech such as intonation, which words are emphasized, and the timing of pauses,&#8221; Gao explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During &#8220;blind listening&#8221; tests, the news style was perceived to be 31 percent more natural than Alexa&#8217;s standard tones; that number jumped to 84 percent for music.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h1NrKzwUwFU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xF_voCBicDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trick, according to Amazon, is a neutral text-to-speech (NTTS) technology that delivers a more natural-sounding voice. Using direct waveform modeling, scientists apply deep learning to produce speech signal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, Alexa has better enunciation and emphasizes the right words in a sentence. Depending on your request, she can even adapt her speaking style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen to the robot&#8217;s varying levels of intensity\u2014low, medium, high\u2014in audio clips below. And try not to feel too spooked by her oddly familiar inflections.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ym_jXqaxTf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FsOxhdukukg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PIh2KB3K7wY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JevmDLTBlgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-nQG1Remyhs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDJsB8BhP1s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moving forward, developers may want to beef up their apps by having Alexa respond in a happy or excited tone when someone answers a trivial question correctly, for instance. Or allow her to sympathize with folks asking for the sports score when their favorite team has lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Early customer feedback indicates that overall satisfaction with the voice experience increased by 30 percent when Alexa responded with emotions,&#8221; Gao said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get started with Alexa emotions, simply use the newly published SSML tags, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/en-US\/blogs\/alexa\/alexa-skills-kit\/2019\/11\/new-alexa-emotions-and-speaking-styles\"  rel=\"noopener\">available<\/a> via the Alexa Skills Kit Blog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More on Geek.com:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/mcdonalds-taps-alexa-to-recruit-new-hires-1805340\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McDonald&#8217;s Taps Alexa to Recruit New Hires<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/alexa-lets-you-donate-school-supplies-to-students-in-need-1798861\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexa Lets You Donate School Supplies to Students in Need<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/worlds-first-genderless-voice-assistant-needs-your-help-1778903\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World&#8217;s First Genderless Voice Assistant Needs Your Help<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/alexa-650x366.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<div>Speechcons (via Amazon)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Alexa, try that once more, with feeling.&rdquo; Developers can now enable Amazon&rsquo;s digital assistant to respond with a happy\/excited or disappointed\/empathetic tone. 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