There are millions of Smart Amazon speakers sitting in the kitchen, bedroom and living room throughout the world. Each feature of Alexa, Cloud-based digital assistant is able to detect and describe real human voices and react in the form of goods. Most of the Amazon users know the name of the digital assistant with the heart, especially if they have smart speakers made by the company. What most people don’t consider is the origin of the sound that is now known behind technology, which starts with a company in Poland and hurts its path to a woman in Boulder, Colorado.
In 2013, a year before the first row of Echo Smart Speakers were launched, Amazon bought Ivona software, a speech synthesis company based in Poland. The concept and technology was first made by Ivona finally became the foundation for speech technology activated by Alexa. Toni Reid, Vice President of the Alexa experience and Echo device on Amazon, is responsible for the Alexa audio team. Tasked with making Alexa sound like a human while being intelligent, humble, and useful, Reid and his team need to find the right sound for the job.
Like many large companies, Amazon is kept secret about its ownership technology and remains tight lying about Alexa’s voice identity. Despite the confidentiality of Amazon, a very likely source of candidate for Alexa’s voice has been expressed by Brad’s writer. According to research, stone research for his book, “Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the discovery of the global empire,” pointing to Boulder, Colorado, Nina Rolle’s voice actress.
After questioning several people in the “Professional Voiceover Community” and compared the previous Voiceover Rolle work, the stone wrote that he was sure that the rolle was Alexa. Stone reported that finding the right person for Alexa’s voice was very important, and Amazon spent months filtering auditions until they finally found.
List of voices and list of Nina Rolle’s singer clients including the film Turner Classic, Honda, Jenny Craig, and Absolute Vodka. Above you will see and hear the demo rolls for rolle – sounds familiar? No Rolle and Amazon openly confirm – or deny the stone statement. On April 4, 2022, the Rolle website was inadequate about Amazon, and the company did not appear in the client scroll list which he did in the past.