Amazon introduces generative AI to voice recognition assistant Alexa, allowing it to handle complex requests
At a presentation held at Amazon's second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia on September 20, 2023 local time, Amazon announced that it will introduce generative AI to its voice recognition assistant Alexa to improve the experience of the entire Echo family of smart speakers. announced that it would be improved.
Amazon previews the future of Alexa with generative AI
Since Amazon announced Alexa in 2014, it has continued to improve it with the goal of making conversations with Alexa as natural as talking with other people. With the rapid evolution of generative AI, the goal is now within reach.
To make conversations with Alexa natural, Amazon has combined the Echo's camera, voice input, and presence detection features with an AI model that can understand nonverbal cues. They also focused on reducing latency so that conversations continued naturally without interruptions, and responses were of an appropriate length for voice.
It will also take over the context throughout the conversation, so if you tell them your schedule, for example, 'What month and day are you planning to go to ○○ museum,' the next time you ask about ○○ museum, they will be able to take the context into account. This will tell you about opening hours, events, exhibits, etc. on the day you plan to visit.
Also, people sometimes pause for a moment during a conversation to collect their thoughts. It is difficult for AI to interpret this cue, but by building a new Conversational Speech Recognition (CSR) engine, it can interpret even natural silence and create a fluid, natural conversation.
Alexa is required not only to have natural conversations, but also to perform actions such as setting alarms and taking notes on schedules. The new Alexa LLM (Large-Scale Language Model) is now more powerful than humans, capable of handling nuance and ambiguity to act intelligently, and connects hundreds of thousands of devices and services via API. will be connected to. This allows even complex instructions such as ``On weekdays, at 9 p.m., tell the kids it's time for bed, dim the lights upstairs, turn on the porch light, and turn on the fan in the bedroom.'' It will process it properly.
A video of what it would be like to use the new Alexa has also been released.
When the woman returned home and left her keys behind, she called out, ``Alexa, let's chat,'' and Alexa responded, ``What's going on?''
When asked, 'How was the soccer result yesterday?' Alexa answered, 'OL Rain beat the Portland Thorns 1-0.' Even if you don't go out of your way to include the phrases ``women's professional soccer'' or ``OL Rain,'' you can tell from the context that you are a fan of OL Rain.
While putting the food she had bought in the fridge, a woman asked, ``Tell me in simple words.'' Alexa replied, ``In the first half, OL Rain had a solid defense and had a possession rate of 52%.In the second half, the Portland Thorns received a yellow card. The match was heated, with OL Reign scoring the first goal in the 55th minute,'' he said, summarizing the match in a sports news style.
After this, the woman continued talking to Alexa as if she were talking to her partner.
The new Alexa will be available soon for users in the United States.
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