If you’re in a room where a child has just fallen asleep, and someone else walks in, you might start speaking in a whisper, to indicate that you’re trying to keep the room quiet. The other person will probably start whispering, too.
We would like Alexa to react to conversational cues in just such a natural, intuitive way, and toward that end, Amazon last week announced Alexa’s new whisper mode, which will let Alexa-enabled devices respond to whispered speech by whispering back. (The U.S. English version will be available in October.
Voice recognition is becoming more and more complex. Natural and emotional language is key to trigger and process the right actions. What would be the next modes? Anger mode? Sad mode?…
