ABC News has published this article from the Associated Press about Amazon's latest development with their personal assistant device Alexa. Excerpt:
"Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members - even if they’re dead.
The capability, unveiled at Amazon’s Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas, is in development and would allow the virtual assistant to mimic the voice of a specific person based on a less than a minute of provided recording."
I'm not sure what to make of this. Personally, I'm not sure it would do much to help with my grief. To me, hearing someone or some thing pretending to be my mother is not the same as hearing the actual voice of your loved one, even if it's from years ago. But who knows? Maybe there's another perspective here that I'm not aware of.
