{"id":5558,"date":"2021-08-20T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:21:29","slug":"alexa-say-hello-to-amitabh-bachchan-amit-jis-voice-now-live-on-alexa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/?p=5558","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alexa, say Hello to Amitabh Bachchan&#8221;- Amit ji\u2019s voice, now live on Alexa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>The Newz Biz Team, PUNE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amazon today announced the availability of India\u2019s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the legendary icon of Indian cinema &#8211; Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. Indian customers can choose to add Amit ji\u2019s voice to their Alexa experience on Echo devices or by pressing the mic icon on the Amazon shopping app (Android only) for an introductory price of INR 149 for one year. Just say \u201cAlexa, introduce me to Amitabh Bachchan\u201d to start the purchase and interact with Mr. Bachchan\u2019s voice using the wake word \u2018Amit ji\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy original and specially curated content handpicked by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan<\/p>\n<p>The celebrity experience features content handpicked by Mr. Bachchan &#8211; stories from his life, a selection of poems by his father, tongue twisters, motivational quotes, and more. In addition to this unique and entertaining content, customers can also ask for music, set alarms and get weather updates in Mr. Bachchan\u2019s signature style. For other tasks like shopping, general information, routines, smart home control, skills, and more, there\u2019s Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once setup, you can simply ask \u2018Amit ji\u2019 to inspire, entertain and cheer you every day.\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">Amit ji\u2019s voice experience today understands the same languages that Alexa can on your compatible devices. On your Echo devices, you can interact with Alexa and Amit ji in English, Hindi or both. To change the language, go to the device settings on your Alexa app or just say \u201cAlexa, speak in Hindi\u201d to your Echo device.\u00a0<\/span>On the Amazon shopping app, Amit ji and Alexa can interact in English only at launch.<s><\/s><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Mr. Amitabh Bachchan said<\/b>\u00a0\u201cWorking with Amazon to introduce my voice on Alexa was a new experience in bringing together the magic of voice technology and artistic creativity. I am excited that my well-wishers can now interact with me via this new medium, and looking forward to hear how they feel about this,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Puneesh Kumar, Country Leader for Alexa, Amazon India Said<\/b>\u00a0\u201cAt Amazon &amp; Alexa, we consistently innovate on behalf of our customers and building the Amitabh Bachchan celebrity voice experience with one of India\u2019s most iconic voices has been a labor of love. Creating the world\u2019s first bi-lingual celebrity voice required us to invent &amp; re-invent across almost every element of speech science \u2013 wake word, speech recognition, neural text-to-speech and more\u201cWhile we are proud of the many India-first innovations and desi-delighters in this, it\u2019s still Day 1 and we will continue to enrich this experience as science evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"signature-text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Newz Biz Team, PUNE Amazon today announced the availability of India\u2019s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the legendary icon of Indian cinema &#8211; Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. Indian customers can choose to add Amit ji\u2019s voice to their Alexa experience on Echo devices or by pressing the mic icon on the Amazon shopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[505],"tags":[2238,2241,2240,2239],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-alexa","tag-bi","tag-now-live-on-alexa","tag-say-hello-to-amitabh-bachchan-amit-jis-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewzbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}