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Alexa & Friends features Kayoko Yanagisawa, Alexa AI senior speech scientist

Alexa's new Polyglot model breaks language barriers. Amazon's senior speech scientist reveals the AI breakthrough making voice assistants truly bilingual.

Reporting by Amazon Science 1 min brief
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Amazon's advancement in bilingual AI models represents a significant technical breakthrough in voice AI that could reshape how enterprise voice assistants handle multilingual environments and global deployments.

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  1. Alexa's new bilingual Polyglot model

  2. Amazon Alexa AI speech research developments

  3. Bilingual voice AI capabilities

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Publisher excerpt: Yanagisawa discusses the science behind Alexa's new bilingual Polyglot model, her career in speech research, and more.
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