Chatting with Alexa can soon feel more natural because Amazon starts launching voice assistant voice conversation modes. Features, which was revealed by the company at the hardware event fell 2020, allowed a group of people to have communication back and forth with Alexa without having to say the word wake up several times.
The conversation mode debuted at Echo the third gen showed 10, and Amazon rolled it over the next few weeks. It’s an opt-in feature, and you can turn it on by saying “Alexa, join this conversation.” Anyone in the room will be able to talk to the sound assistant, as long as they see the screen and smart screen camera can see it.
Say “Leave this conversation,” or turn off the mic or camera will end the conversation mode. Alexa will also turn it off if there is no interaction for a certain period of time.
There is a visual indicator to display when conversation mode is active. You will see the blue limit around the screen and the light blue blade at the bottom when the ECHO Show 10 sends your request to the Cloud. There are no videos or images uploaded, and you will be able to review and remove voice recordings through the Alexa application.
Amazon said that the AI conversation mode used visual and acoustic cues to determine when someone said something to Echo Show 10. Alexa then formulated a response based on the context. The company plans to improve mode from time to time and add features like the ability to interfere with the list of options by saying something like “one!”
The features built on the Amazon feature are added to make Alexa sound more like real people, including taking a breath, changing voice tone and emphasizing certain words. In conversation mode, Alexa will stop when cut off.
Google Assistant has similar features, advanced conversations, since 2018. Apple was reported to have worked on how to allow people to have conversations back and forth with Siri for several years.
