Creepy or cute? CREEPY. Amazon’s Alexa AI can now whisper sweet nothings and express emotions like a HUMAN

In the hope of making Alexa as life-like as possible, Amazon has introduced new updates to its AI assistant’s voice.
Alexa can now whisper, bleep out swear-words, add emphasis to words and even be programmed to say regional-specific phrases.
The update has been rolled out to devices in the US, UK, and Germany.
The changes are to Amazon’s Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) – a standardised markup language that allows developers to control pronunciation, intonation, timing and emotion.’
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