Alexa has grown in popularity in recent years, and we’re sure that, even if you haven’t owned one of the products powered by this device yourself, you have definitely heard of Amazon Alexa. The voice assistant that has been created by Amazon is admired as an impressive network tool that’s equipped with incredible technology. Amazon Alexa is also known for its reliability as a smart home controller.
Amazon Alexa provides users with a Pandora’s box filled with entertaining features, which has ultimately changed our interactions with the internet, our homes, and our friends and family members who have their own Amazon devices.
There is a variety of different activities that Amazon Alexa can effectively perform. Do you want to dim the smart lights in your living area remotely? Alexa has the ability to do this. Do you want to voice activate your music to play? Alexa can do that too. Would you like to order something online – without even pressing a button? Alexa has got you covered.
Even better, Alexa is equipped with impressive technology that can inform you when this particular package has been delivered by triggering flashing lights on the Amazon device and notifying you through the Echo Alexa App. The amount of tasks that Alexa can perform is forever growing and expanding. It’s not surprising that users claim Alexa’s capabilities to be endless.
However, if you glaze over at the comments about Alexa, you’re bound to find a review about users claiming Alexa’s voice to be quite monotone and boring. If you’re exhausted from continually hearing Alexa’s voice, you don’t need to fear as we have the perfect array of solutions for you to choose from.
Can I Change Alexa’s Voice?
The technology that Alexa is equipped with allows the user to change the settings. Making a change in these settings allows you to change Alexa’s voice, change the language, or change the regional accent that this virtual assistant uses, along with many more exciting features included in this guide.
How To Change Alexa’s Voice:
Can you imagine how awesome it would be to set your Echo device to produce a voice that sounded like your favorite celebrities? The idea was brought up in the 2018 Amazon ad campaign that premiered at the Super Bowl.
The series of ads saw celebrities like Gordan Ramsay, Rebel Wilson, Anthony Hopkins, and Cardi B take over the voice of Alexa. This was an excellent surprise for Echo device users. It’s no wonder as to why so many people want to get their device to produce these celebrity voice features after seeing these advertisements.
However, the technology is still in the works. Nonetheless, we have provided how to change Alexa’s voice to use celebrities such as Samuel L. Jackson’s voice. You can get this information further below.
Nevertheless, these celebrities aren’t yet an exclusive feature. You do have another method to change Alexa’s voice (language and accent). This voice “how to change” step-by-step guide can show you how to make a change to Alexa’s voice and get a different accent and language:
Changing Accents and Languages:
1. Open the Alexa app
2. Select Devices. This feature is represented as a house-shaped button located at the bottom right-hand side of the screen.
3. Pick the particular device that you’d like to change the voice settings of.
4. Scroll far down the page until you reach the Language section. The default setting that’s built into the Alexa app for Echo dot is United States English.
5. Click on this default language. Different languages are going to pop up along with various dialects that you can choose from. The technology that Amazon Echo Alexa’s voice is equipped with provides this device to change Alexa’s voice to a variety of different English accents from around the globe. These include India, Scotland, New Zealand/Australia, United Kingdom.
6. Select OK to save the accent or language changes you have made to Alexa’s voice. It’s essential to note that you may receive a notification after making these accent or language voice changes stating that some of the Echo Amazon Alexa capabilities and skills are no longer available with this new vocal setting.
7. Wait patiently while the device makes the necessary changes and switches to the new language or accent.
8. The echo dot with Alexa is now equipped to speak English in the chosen regional accent.
How To Make Alexa Quieter:
There are a few other aspects of Alexa’s voice that you have control over other than Alexa’s accent and language voice. How to change Alexa’s voice so that it’s quieter is one of these other aspects. You can make this change and get a quieter feature by following this voice ‘how to change’ step-by-step guide:
Making Alexa Quieter:
· Open the Alexa app.
· Scroll to the Settings section.
· In the Setting of the Alexa app, select Voice Responses.
· In the Voice Responses, you are going to be required to make a choice between two different options. The one is called Brief Mode. The use of this feature is to provide your Echo Amazon Alexa device with the ability to use shorter and more brief responses when you use the assistant. The next option is the Whisper Mode. This is the mode you should select if you want to change the volume the Echo Amazon Alexa device makes use of when being used. This mode allows you to change Alexa’s voice to speak in a more calm tone.
How To Change Alexa’s Name:
The Amazon Alexa app (rights reserved) is unable to allow users to change Alexa’s name. However, you can change the ‘wake word’ of the device to several other terms. What is a ‘wake word’? The technology that the Amazon Alexa device is equipped with sets the device to listen for the name ‘Alexa’ as an activation tool.
The ‘wake word’ is a specific word that requires immediate action from the Amazon device. You can expand this wake term to a variety of different names. You can change Alexa’s voice commands on the Amazon Alexa app by following this straightforward step-by-step guide:
Changing the Wake Term:
· Open the Alexa app.
· Select the three horizontal line icon that’s located on the top left-hand side of the Alexa app.
· Select Settings.
· Select Device Settings.
· Select the designated Amazon device that you would like to change Alexa’s ‘wake word’ in and scroll down and select the Wake Word setting.
· Select the specific ‘wake word’ that you’d like your particular Amazon device to implement into its settings. You have the choice of words such as the Computer, Echo, Amazon, and Alexa.
How To Change Alexa’s Voice Speed:
If you wish for the Alexa assistant on your device to speak slower or faster, you can easily make this change without even having to enter the Alexa app. All you need to do is:
· Activate the ‘wake word’ of your device.
· Say, “Alexa, speak slower/faster.” That’s all that’s required of you to change Alexa’s talking speed to either become faster or slower.
How To Change Alexa’s Voice To A Celebrity Voice:
If you saw the ad campaign for Amazon’s Alexa in the 2018 Super Bowl, then you obviously saw that other celebrities’ voices were used in the place of the original speaking tone of Alexa. As previously mentioned, many people wish to know how to make this change and have their device’s assistant to mimic their favorite celebrities. However, this feature needs to come with some disclaimers, as it’s still relatively new and isn’t precisely complete for all of the features that Alexa is equipped with.
The first disclaimer is that you can’t equip your device to take on the particular celebrity’s voice, such as Samuel L. Jackson, entirely. His vocals can’t be used for everything. However, this feature does work by asking your device’s speaking assistant, Alexa, to indirectly ask Samuel L. Jackson (or another available celebrity) a question. You can then hear Samuel’s speak as the response to the question is given.
The product page that’s available states that even though Sam is equipped to do a variety of different things, he doesn’t have the ability to help you with Reminders, Skills, or Shopping Lists, among other elements of the Alexa assistant setup.
This is an official feature equipped with Alexa’s technology, which Samuel L. Jackson (along with other celebrities) have lent their voice to. This feature costs $0,99 to use on your device. Another disclaimer is that this feature is currently only available within the United States. Nonetheless, Amazon is looking to expand this Celebrity Voice Program to other countries in the near future, as well as expand the number of celebrities available in this program.
You can activate this feature and trigger a response from Samuel L. Jackson or another one of the available celebrities by asking Alexa to introduce you to Samuel L. Jackson. You can then ask Alexa questions, and you can get a Vocalized response from Samuel L. Jackson.
This feature aids in the entertainment factor provided by the Amazon Alexa technology. Moreover, the Alexa entertainment value can be heightened even more by choosing whether or not to allow explicit language to be incorporated into the responses that are generated from the lent voices of the available celebrities.
Can I Turn Off Voice Purchasing?
Yes, you do have the ability to turn off this specific voiced purchasing. This can be done by:
· Opening the Alexa app.
· Select Settings.
· Select Alexa Account.
· Select Voice Purchasing and choose to switch off this option.
You also have the option to acquire an optional confirmation code. This feature causes you to have to say the code aloud before an order can go through with Amazon. The default setting that Alexa is equipped with is that your approval is required for every vocal purchase conducted from Amazon. This feature is included through a kid skill. You may also be able to turn off these verbal purchase requests from Amazon by going through kid skills in the Alexa app on your mobile device.
Who Is The Voice of Alexa?
This is a question that many people ask, yet not a lot of people know the answer to this question. The CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, released a letter to shareholders where he claimed that Alexa’s vocal tone was the product of inspiration for the Star Trek computer. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry voiced this computer.
Nonetheless, the difference between the Star Trek computer and the Alexa assistant is that Alexa wasn’t voiced by a human. Instead, the vocal tone that Alexa possesses is built from using Natural Language Processing. This processing breaks down human speech into ideas, sounds, and words.
This Natural Language Processing begins when your Amazon device receives your command and sends this command’s data Alexa Voice Service (AVS), which is cloud-based. The best way to think of AVS is to picture it as the ‘brain’ that analyzes and converts your commands into a text format by using Natural Language Processing and Automatic Speech Recognition. Once this analyzation has been completed, Alexa’s ‘brain’ is able to generate and send back a response that’s in-line with the command you gave.
The growth in technological advancements is extremely likely to result in these advancements aiding in the bettering of the technology that Alexa is equipped with. This is especially the case as the market is becoming increasingly more in-demand, and the smart home assistants become more competitive.
Anything Else?
Sadly, this is all the vocal modifications you can perform on Alexa. The technology is highly advanced. However, it provides a limited amount of customization. This particular assistant may be the most popular. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean that the competition within the smart home assistant market lacks impressive features.
One of Amazon’s competitors, Google Assistant, provides users with one feature that’s not yet been incorporated in the abilities of Alexa. This is the ability to switch from male to female voices. The Google Assistant feature represents these differences in voices as red and orange labels, rather than identifying the different voices as female or male. Many other smart home assistants employ this feature into its design. Another example is Apple’s Siri.
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