Amazon Alexa update will distinguish between voices

Distinguishing between voices isn’t new

The idea of AI being able to distinguish between voices sounds futuristic, but it isn’t actually new. Google’s famous Assistant can be “trained” to understand its owner, though Google Home, thus far, is unable to make such granular distinctions.

Introducing Voice ID to Alexa would be a natural progression of the assistant’s capabilities, which recently achieved 10,000 skills. If you have a household with multiple Amazon users, being able to distinguish between voices would be huge.

Time warns that although Amazon is ready to launch Voice ID, there’s a possibility it may never be made available. Hopefully, Amazon can overcome whatever privacy issues are holding it back and roll the feature out soon.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/02/27/amazon-alexa-update-different-voices/