Amazon's Alexa AI can now whisper sweet nothings

In the hope of making Alexa as life-like as possible, Amazon has introduced new updates to its AI assistant's voice. Alexa can now whisper, bleep out swear-words, add emphasis to words and even be programmed to say regional-specific phrases. The update has been rolled out to devices in the US, UK, and Germany. Amazon's Alexa can now whisper, bleep out swear-words, add emphasis to words and even be programmed to say regional-specific phrases. The changes are to Amazon's Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) – a standardised markup language that allows developers to control pronunciation, intonation, timing and emotion.