Amazon has unveiled a new speech and emotion-driven tech for its latest AI

    The new program is entitled Nova Sonic

Geekwire is reporting Nova Sonic unifies speech recognition and generation to deliver a more human interaction, according to Amazon.

Amazon says the new program can sense the emotion in a human voice, perceiving the sound of an upset or angry person, or upbeat emotionally.

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The program picks up on the tone of the voice and can respond with an appropriate message. An angry human voice might  be met with a more soothing delivery, while an upbeat happy voice is met with similar enthusiasm.

According to Geekwire:

"Unlike traditional voice systems that stitch together separate models for speech recognition, language processing, and text-to-speech, Nova Sonic combines all three in a single architecture, according to the company."

The program can also perform duties without breaking a conversation, such as checking on an account, or retrieving flight information for a person, according to Geekwire.

 The new program is available  now in the eastern US via Amazon Bedrock. Bedrock is a program used to build applications.

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