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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.

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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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