Amazon Alexa Will Now Feature Samuel L. Jackson Cursing At You

[GGD]

I wonder how he replies if you ask about snakes.

https://www.slashfilm.com/samuel-l-jackson-alexa/

If you’d like to replace the soothing current voice of Amazon’s Alexa with the voice of Samuel L. Jackson, you’re in luck. Amazon is planning on releasing celebrity voices for their Alexa devices, and Jackson’s will be the first. You’ll be able to use two different versions of the Samuel L. Jackson Alexa: explicit and non-explicit. And let’s be honest, you’re going to use the explicit one. No one wants to hear a censored Samuel L. Jackson.

Deadline reports that Amazon is getting ready to let Samuel L. Jackson call you a mother fucker via your Alexa device. Per their story, Jackson and “other celebrities will lend their voices to Amazon’s Alexa devices in a new feature that will be available as a 99-cent upgrade.” The other celebrities will be added next year, but Jackson gets first dibs, which kind of makes sense. The actor has a highly recognizable voice, and you have to admit it’ll be pretty funny to have his vulgar voice coming out of your Alexa device while the CIA uses it to spy on you.

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[RAMd®d]

The first real reason for me to dislike Echo products.

I'll attempt to manage my ire.

[testcase]

What’s in your wallet a..hole?

[rz]

Caught a few minutes of "Pulp Fiction" on regular TV the other day. My thought was, "Why bother?" They had to censor and/or change so much of what was said.

[cbelt3]

rz wrote:
Caught a few minutes of "Pulp Fiction" on regular TV the other day. My thought was, "Why bother?" They had to censor and/or change so much of what was said.

FORGET YOU ! You MotherFarting Cucumbersucking Potato !

[Lew Zealand]

cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=rz]
Caught a few minutes of "Pulp Fiction" on regular TV the other day. My thought was, "Why bother?" They had to censor and/or change so much of what was said.

FORGET YOU ! You MotherFarting Cucumbersucking Potato !
Well played, sir. :golfclap:

[Blankity Blank]

Take my 99¢ motherfucker!

[GGD]

The more interesting aspect of this to me at least is that Alexa's voice is essentially a text to speech process. So this means that Amazon will actually have to rework their entire output generation process to add the "explicit" words to the responses before feeding it to the final voice generation that uses Jackson's voice.

And then think about what explicit mode might be like if used with someone like Queen Elizabeth's voice.

I really wonder what it must have been like to be on the development team for that project.