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Good morning The UN’s Middle East envoy issued a stark warning that “we’re escalating towards a full-scale war” as violence between Israeli jets and Palestinian militants continued this morning, bringing the death toll to 45. Tor Wennesland, who is expected to brief the UN security council on the crisis today, urged leaders on all sides to “take the responsibility of de-escalation”. “Stop the fire immediately. We’re escalating towards a...

Rolle, who is based in Boulder, has conducted voiceover work for clients including Honda, Jenny Craig and Chase bank. According to Stone’s book, she was selected after Amazon spent months assessing various candidates, with the final choice signed off by Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder. Stone writes that Rolle said she was unable to talk about the role when he contacted her in February. Amazon has sold more than 100m devices that carry Alexa’s voice since it first incorporated it into the Amazon Echo device in 2014. The voice has been alluded to in various adverts and comedy s...

Meet the real Alexa: voice actor reportedly responsible for Amazon’s AI assistant revealed May 11, 2021, 9:22am EDT If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Share this story Amazon’s Alexa has a voice familiar to millions: calm, warm, and measured. But like most synthetic speech, its tones have a human origin. There was someone whose voice had to be recorded, analyzed, and algorithmically reproduced to create Alexa as we know it now. Amazon has never revealed who this “original Alexa” is, but journalist Brad Stone s...

EXCLUSIVE: The Bald and the Beautiful: How nerdy Jeff Bezos wooed voluptuous Lauren Sanchez by taking her to an exclusive Amazon AI event in 2018 and giving her a tour of the Washington Post presses, new bio reveals Details of Jeff Bezos's courtship with now-girlfriend Lauren Sanchez are revealed in new book, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire  According to Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone, Bezos wooed Sanchez, who was married at the time, with his wealth and influence in the early days of their affair The billionaire tech founder, 57, invited Sanchez, a former TV...

Alexa, who are you? New book identifies Amazon’s secret voiceover artist Oliver Milman in New York © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters The voice of Alexa, the virtual assistant developed by Amazon, is provided by Nina Rolle, a Colorado-based voiceover artist, according to a new book. Amazon has never revealed who provides the default female voice that responds to commands and questions given to Alexa, but the author Brad Stone said he identified the voice as Rolle’s after “canvasing the professional voiceover community” for his new book, ...