If you’ve ever wanted to know how to dodge the subject and cheerfully suppress emotion just like a real Irish person would, Amazon’s Alexa can now teach you how. Amazon has just announced that its ...

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 said on Monday its cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage, disrupting several popular websites and apps across ...

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 have teamed up with comedian Aisling Bea to teach Alexa the nation's most popular words and phrases. From today, customers can ask "Alexa, teach me some Irish sayings" to have some of Ireland's ...

Comedian Aisling Bea is set to give Amazon’s Alexa a crash course in Irish phrases. From today, customers can simply ask: “Alexa, teach me some ‘Irish’ sayings?” to be treated to Ireland's best-loved ...

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 ...

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

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 ...