You Can Soon Turn Your Amazon Alexa Into Samuel L. Jackson

Amazon Alexa might be one of the most helpful devices on the planet, but she’s about to get a whole lot more serious thanks to the dulcet tones of none other than Samuel L. Jackson.

Nick Fury will be one of the many characters available among a list of celebrity voices, announced at Amazon’s annual hardware event.

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The company will use cutting-edge neural text-to-speech technology to recreate his voice rather than making the star recite every word. something which I’m sure he’s pretty relieved about.

What a time to be alive.

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Jackson’s Alexa personality will be available to purchase later this year for $0.99 (80p) and users will be able to choose between a clean or explicit version.

Amazon did say that celebrity voices will be a little more limited in terms of notifications they can read out. Things like diary reminders will be out of bounds but there’s still plenty of other perks.

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Examples given at the event included: “Alexa, ask Samuel L. Jackson where he is from”; “Alexa, ask Sam to wake me up at 7 a.m.”; and “Alexa, ask Sam Jackson to sing happy birthday.”

Basically, it’s going to be a wild ride every single day for the rest of your life, and of course Twitter is having a field day with the news.

Let’s be honest: there isn’t possibly a better way to kick off your birthday celebrations than being serenaded by the leader of the Avengers. We may not have quite reached flying cars but this is definitely the next best thing.

Personally I’m still holding out hope for a Morgan Freeman Alexa to narrate every aspect of my daily life.

Would you like to see more celebrity voices making their appearance on the Amazon Alexa?

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