OWNERS of Alexa powered speakers have suddenly woken up to an unexpected new voice – and not everyone is happy about it. Last ...

Amazon has announced that Alexa has had a crash course on Irish vernacular, courtesy of comedian and bona fide Irish national treasure, Aisling Bea. Customers can now ask: “Alexa, teach me some ‘Irish ...

Amazon has revealed Alexa’s most asked questions of 2025 in Ireland - offering a fascinating glimpse into what the Irish are ...

Two scientists at Amazon used artificial intelligence to help them make Alexa Irish. The team trained Alexa on accents generated by text-to-speech models. This then helped them identify distinctive ...

DUBLIN — Like Henry Higgins, the phonetician from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” Marius Cotescu and Georgi Tinchev recently demonstrated how their student was trying to overcome pronunciation ...

Amazon Alexa. Image: Amazon Ireland Liverpool celebrate winning the Premier League on an open-top bus. Amazon has revealed the most commonly asked questions to AI cloud-based voice service Alexa by ...

Irish Amazon Alexa users wanted to know everything about football teams, cooking tips, celebrity heights, net worths, and who their spouses are in 2025 ...

Amazon’s new and improved Alexa experience, Alexa+, starts at $19.99 per month, or free for Amazon Prime subscribers. It’ll roll out in early access beginning next month in the U.S., and then will ...

Alexa used to be a name primarily given to human babies. Now it’s mainly for robots. Seven years ago, Amazon released Alexa, its voice assistant, and as the number of devices answering to that name ...

Two data scientists who created an Irish accent for Amazon's Alexa say that text-to-speech systems powered by artificial intelligence shifted how the team approaches the creation of different voice ...