[Introduction]: Not long ago, at the Google Developers Conference, Google Voice Assistant added a lot of features, of which natural sound became a bright spot, and Amazon was not satisfied. Amazon voice assistant alexa, added support for 8 kinds of natural voice benchmark Google.
Alexa's new natural voice is provided through Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is Amazon's service for converting text to lifelike speech based on deep learning technology.
Amazon Polly supports Speech Synthetic Markup Language (SSML), an XML-based W3C standard markup language for speech synthesis applications and supports the use of generic SSML tags for sentence breaks, accents, and intonation.
In short, the speech synthesized by Amazon Polly has the ups and downs of tone and tone, and the speed of speech speed alternates. It also pauses the sentence in a timely manner during the speech.
So, how does Amazon Polly send its synthesized voice to a smart device equipped with Alexa?
Amazon Polly provides developers with an API that allows developers to quickly integrate synthesized speech into smart device applications. Developers simply send text to be converted to speech to the Amazon Polly API, and Amazon Polly sends the audio stream back to the application immediately. With this API, developers can choose to have users perform instant voice interactions in the application, or store the audio streams sent back by Amazon Polly in MP3 format.
Amazon Polly supports more than eight voices and languages, providing dozens of realistic voices and supporting multiple languages. Amazon only offers 8 American English voices to developers of Alexa voice applications, perhaps because a large percentage of Alexa's users are currently concentrated in the United States.
First of all, let Alexa emit more different sounds, which helps to enhance the user's sense of using Alexa and eliminate the sense of distance between people and machines. For example, when a child uses Alexa to read a story, different voices and ups and downs will make the child feel more involved.
Secondly, in order to seize more users and compete fiercely in technology applications, Amazon’s move should be in response to Google’s announcement last week at the I/O conference that Google Assitant will support six different voices. At the Google I/O conference, Google CEO Sundar Pichai showed the supernatural speech synthesized by WaveNet on Google Assitant, one of which even came from the famous R&B singer John Legend. Sundar Pichai said this is to accommodate the different pronunciation habits of Google Assitan users.
In order to gain the hearts and minds of users, Amazon is also very painstaking. But why is there only English, no Mandarin? Bad review! One day, the voice assistant can speak fluent Cantonese to us, and the Northeastern language is expected to be very popular among Chinese consumers.
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