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 ...

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 ...

OWNERS of Alexa powered speakers have suddenly woken up to an unexpected new voice – and not everyone is happy about it. Last ...

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 has revealed Alexa’s most asked questions of 2025 in Ireland - offering a fascinating glimpse into what the Irish are ...

Amazon Alexa. Image: Amazon Ireland Liverpool celebrate winning the Premier League on an open-top bus. Amazon has revealed the most commonly asked questions to AI cloud-based voice service Alexa by ...

Alexa is always ready to help out, and has once again been on hand to answer the questions posed by inquisitive customers in Ireland. Revealed yesterday were this year’s Alexa’s Most Asked Questions, ...

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 ...