Amazon Alexa can now answer your queries in Hindi
Amazon officials also emphasized improving Alexa’s understanding of Indian culture and festivals along side adorning the virtual assistant with an Indian accent English and eventually Hindi language.
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Amazon, in its event on September 18, announced that it’s extending the feature of ‘Hindi language’ support for Alexa voice assistant. Amazon Alexa is definitely available on Echo Dot, Echo Plus etc. from where it are often wont to gain information and entertainment of varied genres. within the event, Amazon affirmed that folks of India are quite passionately using Alexa where everyday thousands of questions are being asked from it. the corporate showcased this feature by asking “Alexa, Kaise ho”? to which it replied “Apne pucha, dil garden garden ho gaya”.
Alexa was launched in 2018 with over 10,000 skills and lots of foreign languages but the support for Hindi came only in September 2019 as users interest grew manifold in using the device in Hinglish by asking Alexa to play Bollywood music, tell the newest news, live sports updates and multiple varied queries, to which Alexa answered benevolently.
Amazon officials also emphasized improving Alexa’s understanding of Indian culture and festivals along side adorning the virtual assistant with an Indian accent English and eventually Hindi language. during a handout , Amazon said that it’s been a heartening time for all of them through the course of developing the Indian version of the assistant. Alexa also features a simple transformation option for the users to modify from Hindi to English and vice-versa.
By introducing enhanced improvements in Alexa which can count over 60, the virtual assistant’s tongue Understanding has been tremendously modified to figure as per users’ commands. this may further ease Alexa’s response towards them as quite 60% of users like better to speak with their virtual assistant in Hinglish. the corporate said that such requests have only helped Alexa to advance its deep neural networks, multi-dialect training, and semi-supervised learning to attenuate the speech errors by almost 40% while AI has played a big role in advancing its vocabulary by 30%.
Finally, Amazon said that it’s an initial phase for Alexa in Hindi, so there are challenges that need to be tackled, as long as the question asked by Hindi speaking users are far more complex than those asked by English speaking consumers. This makes it difficult for the team behind the assistant to algorithmically decipher and supply optimum results. Nevertheless, Amazon is optimistic about Alexa’s future prospects, as, with the introduction of Hindi, it’ll be ready to reach a way wider scale of audiences.
